Note 743 — Chapter XI · THE SWORD IN ANCIENT GREECE: HOMER; HESIOD AND HERODOTUS: MYCENÆ.
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Ibid. So early was that detestable invention, the metal scabbard, introduced. Thus we must understand the φάσγανα καλὰ, μελάνδετα (Il. xv. 713). Compare Eurip. Phœn. 1091. There is much more to be said concerning ‘Phasganon.’