Note 465 — BOOK THE FOURTEENTH.
Theodore Alois Buckley translation · Edition 4
Footnote 465: (return) “The proper sense of ἔξυσε is, scraped or rubbed over and its use here is best explained by supposing a reference to some process among the ancients whereby a shining appearance was given to their vestments, as by calendering or glazing with us.”—Kennedy.