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[688] χρόμαδος need express no more than the grinding of the teeth by the combatants as they launch their blows; and so the scholia explain. Virgil, however, evidently understood it to mean the noise of breaking bones; Aen. v. 436 “duro crepitant sub volnere malae.”

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

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