Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 16 (Π）, line 503

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[503] ὀφθαλμοὺς ῥῖνάς τε, because open eyes and breathing are the two visible signs of life (so the scholia). Some have supposed that “ῥῖνας” alludes to the ‘pinching in’ of the nose, which is a well-known sign of approaching death in the facies Hippocratica (as the dying Falstaff's nose was ‘as sharp as a pen’); but this is too fanciful for H., and the symptom belongs rather to gradual dissolution than to a violent and rapid death.

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

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