Note 492 — SECT. III. The inventive Element of the Homeric Theo-mythology. (continued 2)
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Thus, in Il. xviii. 206, it means that blaze without heat, as from shining armour, with which Minerva invested Achilles when he went forth unarmed. The name Ἥφαιστος also stands alone for fire in Il. ii. 426.