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[745] στ̂ησαν: either they landed, absol. (sc. “νῆας”) as Od. 19.188 “στῆσε δ᾽ ἐν Ἀμνισῶι” (cf. Od. 12.305 “στήσαμεν ἐν λιμένι γλαφυρῶι εὐεργέα νῆα”), or they landed it, or set it up for inspection, or weighed it as a proof of its value (so Paley). Thoas, king of Lemnos, was father of Hypsipyle and grandfather of Euneos, 7.468. They may have given the king a present in order to purchase permission to trade in his country.

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

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