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[52] See Helbig H. E. 242; the hair is pinched into locks by little spirals of gold or silver such as have been found lying beside the skull in graves in Etruria, in Greece (Olympia, Boiotia, Mykene), and Hissarlik. The habit is therefore both very ancient and widely spread. Cf. also 2.872, and Virgil's “crines nodantur in aurum,” Aen. iv. 138.

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

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