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The Iliad

Note 397 — BOOK THE TWELFTH.

Theodore Alois Buckley translation · Edition 4

Footnote 397: (return) From this passage, Heyne observes that the gates must have opened inwards, being secured from within by a double bolt (cf. ver. 455, sqq.). See D’Orville on Chariton, i. xii. p. 274, ed. Lips. On the ὀχεῖς, on bars, cf. Pollux, x. 4.

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