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[19] μεταμάζιον = “μετὰ τοῖς μαζοῖς”, between the breasts. For similar cases, where an adjective compounded with a preposition and a substantive expresses the same idea as a preposition governing a case, we may compare “μεταδόρπιος” (“μετὰ δόρπον”) Od. 4.194, “μεταδήμιος, καταθύμιος, ὑπωρόφιος, ἐπομφάλιον” (7.267), and others; and for the special use of “μετά”, expressing ‘between’ two or more things, compare in later Greek “μεταίχμιος, μετακόσμιος, μετακύμιος, μεταπύργιον”. The word here (as in 7.267) is rather a neuter used as an adverb than an adjective agreeing with “στῆθος”.

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

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