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[153] πλυνοί, washing-troughs, cf. Od. 6.40, 86. Schliemann has found such basins at the foot of Hissarlik, but they are of Roman brickwork. They would be, of course, a necessity to any ancient city. In the same passage of “ζ” (26) we also find σιγαλόεντα used of dirty clothes. It is an epitheton ornans expressing probably the natural gloss of linen (Studniczka, p. 50). The princess Nausikaa herself washes the clothes as the wives and daughters of the Trojans do here.

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

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