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[683] ζῶμα, evidently the light girdle (or rather drawers, “διάζωμα” or “περίζωμα”) still worn in the Olympic contests down to Ol.xiv.The various stories connected with its disuse mark an important point in chronology. See Thuk.i. 6, where the barbarians are said still to use the garment. παρακάββαλεν can hardly mean anything but ‘put about him,’ though the form of the word implies ‘put down beside him,’ cf. 127; ‘requiras “περικάββαλε”,’ Heyne. The word may have been a technical term with a connotation unknown to us.

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

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