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[138] χραύσηι: prob. conn. with the aor. (“ἐπ”）“έχραον, ἔχραε,” Od. 5.396, 16.352, 21.369, etc., and meaning grazed. But Ahrens would separate the two, and explains “χραύω” to mean ‘strike,’ comparing Herod.vi. 75 “ἐνέχραυε ἐς τὸ πρόσωπον τὸ σκῆπτρον”, and Hesych. “χραύσηι: καταξύσηι, πλήξηι.” αὐλῆξ here = the wall of the steading; from 140 it would seem that the stalls are regarded as arranged, with the shepherds' huts, around a courtyard; cf. 18.589, from which it is clear that such a ‘sheep-station’ must have been rather extensive.

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

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