[21] “ἁζόμενοι κτλ”.: a prime motive for granting the request; the Achaeans were to honor the god in the person of his priest. For the apparently neglected “Ϝ” of “ἑκηβόλον”, see § 14 e. The spondee in the fifth foot (see § 39 h f.) gives an emphatic close to the sentence, cf. vs. 11, 157, 291, 600.
This text is part of:
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.