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[674] ἐλαυνόμενος goes with “κτάνον. ῥύσια” does not recur in H.; it is used in the sense usual in later Greek, reprisals, property seized as a pledge for reparation; see Jebb on Soph. O. C. 858; Aisch. Supp. 412, etc. The deed which led to reprisals is recounted farther on (698).

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

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    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 412
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