Note 13 — Chapter X
Reading edition
Iliad, xviii. 34, xxiii. 30 (butchers' tools); Odyssey, ix. 391 ("great axes" and adzes); Iliad, xxiii. 850 (axes). The axes through which Odysseus shot the arrow (nine times in the Odyssey). Battle-axe; this is of bronze (Iliad, xiii. 611, ἀξίνη), axes as tools are πελέκεις. "Iron" as a synonym for wheelwrights' tools (Iliad, iv. 485). Iron butchers' axes (Iliad, xvii. 520; Odyssey, iii. 442-449).