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541—544.
ILIAD. IV
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brass, might be busied in the midst, and whom spear-brandishing Minerva might lead, taking him by the hand, and might avert from him the violence of the darts; for many of the Trojans and of the Greeks on that day were stretched prone in the dust beside one another.

    Anthon; Ammonius, p. 29; Valck. Βεβλῆσθαι μέν ἐστι τὸ ἐκ βολῆς τετρῶσθαι, καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἐναντίων· οὐτᾶσθαι δὲ, τὸ ἐκ χειρὸς τετψῶσθαι.