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[64] Compare Virgil's “regna . . Pallida, dis invisa,” Aen. viii. 245 . εὐρώεντα, dank, occurs also Od. 10.512, Od. 23.322 “Ἀΐδεω δόμον εὐρ.,” Od. 24.10 “εὐρώεντα κέλευθα”, and, always in similar phrases of the underworld, Hes. Opp. 153, Hes. Theog. 731Hes. Theog., 739Hes. Theog., 810, Hym. Cer. 482, “τάφον εὐρώεντα” Ai. 1167 (where see Jebb's note). Döderlein, Ahrens, and others have proposed to read “αὐερόεντα” (“αὐήρ” = “ἀήρ”） or “ἠερόεντα”, gloomy; but there is no reason for departing from the traditional derivation from “εὐρώς”, mould, Virgil's “loca senta situ” （Aen. vi. 462) . Cf. Simonides fr. iv. 4 “ἐντάφιον δὲ τοιοῦτον οὔτ᾽ εὐρὼς οὔὠ ὁ πανδαμάτωρ ἀμαυρώσει χρόνος”. Scholiasts and late poets (Oppian and Nonnos) took the word to mean spacious, as though from “εὐρύς”. But this weakens every passage where it occurs, and in that from Soph. is impossible.

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

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    • Hesiod, Theogony, 731
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    • Hesiod, Theogony, 810
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 153
    • Homer, Odyssey, 10.512
    • Homer, Odyssey, 23.322
    • Homer, Odyssey, 24.10
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter, 482
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.462
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 8.245
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