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NOTES AND CORRECTIONS. 401<br />

similar cases given<br />

at <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> section must be o<strong>the</strong>rwise<br />

explained. It is probably <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> kind noticed in 386.<br />

170 (p. 159). Ano<strong>the</strong>r example <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> distributive use <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Singular is Od. 13. 78 dveppiirTow aXa jrrjda <strong>the</strong>y threw up<br />

<strong>the</strong> salt sea<br />

(each) with his oar-Hade. So in <strong>the</strong> recurring phrase <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Odyssey<br />

a\a TVTTTOV eper/xots we should probably read eper/xw ( 102), which may<br />

be similarly distributive. Or we may take eperjuo'y<br />

in a collective<br />

sense, oarage.<br />

173, 2 (p. 162). For <strong>the</strong> use <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Dual with a large number<br />

which contains <strong>the</strong> numeral Suo, cp. irevraKoa-Lais eiKoo-i Svolv Spa^/Mao/<br />

in an Attic inscription <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 5th century (Meisterhans, p. 45, 4).<br />

This is a good parallel to Od. 8. 35, 48 Kovpa> 8va> 8eica a-Tarrjpavs rj<br />

dvadeiea<br />

Dd

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