[449] ἀμειβομένων: 'as they held converse.' We find the same absolute use in 4. 1461; see on 1. 644. Virg. imitates these lines, Aen. 6. 535, “Hac vice sermonum roseis Aurora quadrigis Iam medium aetherio cursu traiecerat axem.” In 3. 1224 we have ἠριγενὴς Ἠώς; so in Hom. ἠριγένεια is used either as an epithet or a synonym of Ἠώς.