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[334] 334-5 were athetized by Ar. on the sufficient ground that the making of a common tomb was inconsistent with taking home the bones: a practice which we do not elsewhere find in the Homeric age, though it is alluded to by Aisch. Ag. 435-44. 334 is ludicrously feeble in expression; the natural meaning would be, ‘that every man may carry his own bones back.’ As it stands, we must take it to mean ‘that every man may take (somebody's) bones back to the children (of their owner).’

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

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