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[571] ὄφρα, until. They were perhaps laid aside as a sort of pledge to the goddess of the performance of the vow in 292. It is not clear whether the arms themselves are to be consecrated and are the ἰρόν (cf. 460), or whether the word, as elsewhere, means the sacrifice promised in 292-4. The only other case of dedication of an enemy's arms in H. is 7.83 “τεύχεα .. κρεμόω προτὶ νηὸν Ἀπόλλωνος”. The idea of ‘trophies’ properly so called is post-Homeric.

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

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