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[581] κοίλην Λ. κητώεσσαν, L. lying low among the rifted hills. “κητώεσσαν” perhaps refers to the numerous ravines which are characteristic of the Laconian mountains. There was another reading, attributed to Zen. by the scholiast on Od. 4.1, “καιετάεσσαν”, which was explained to mean ‘rich in “καίετος”’ (said to be = “καλαμινθός”, mint), but might equally mean ‘full of clefts,’ from “καιετοί” (“οί ἀπὸ τῶν σεισμῶν ῥωχμοί”, Strabo); cf. “καίατα” = “ὀρύγματα ἢ τὰ ὑπὸ σεισμῶν καταρραγέντα χωρία”, Hes., and “καιάδας”, the gulf into which political criminals were cast at Sparta. See M. and R. on Od. 4.1.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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