[54] κωφ̀ην γαῖαν, the senseless clay. Compare note on 7.99. So Soph. El. 244 “ὁ μὲν θανὼν γᾶ τε καὶ οὐδὲν ὢν κείσεται τάλας”: Eur. fr. 537 “κατθανὼν δὲ πᾶς ἀνὴρ γῆ καὶ σκία”: Epicharmos (?) in Schol. “Τ” on 22.414 (emended by Cobet', “εἰμὶ νεκρός, νεκρὸς δὲ κόπρος, γῆ δ᾽ ἡ κόπρος ἐστίν: εἰ δ᾽ ἡ γῆ θεός ἐστ᾽, οὐ νεκρὸς ἀλλὰ θεός”. It is of course possible to understand he outrages the earth by dragging the body over it; but such a thought is surely not Epic.
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