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[453] ἐπιβλ́ης, evidently a long beam running horizontally through a hole in one door-post, so that it could be thrust across the door into a suitable hole in the other post. The gate in the fortifications has two such bolts, there called “ὀχῆες”, see 446, and on 12.456.

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

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