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Book Ten<br />

Hektor's return from battle, and perhaps also in Nestor's comfortable quarters<br />

at 14.6-7. aaduivOos is clearly a word of non-Greek provenance (note<br />

the intervocalic -a- and the suffix -vO-) but is attested on a Knossos sealing<br />

KN Ws 8497; it is the normal term in the Odyssey (iox ) for this amenity.<br />

577 Anr(a): always in //. (3X) and once in Od. occurs with parts of<br />

dAsi9Eiv, a jingle rather than an etymology, cf. TETponrov f)uap ... TETEAEOTO<br />

. . . TrEUTTTCp TT£|i7r' . . . Od. 5.262-3.<br />

578 The libation is part of the ritual of drinking and sometimes a formality,<br />

the god(s) being unspecified. That the two heroes here give thanks to<br />

Athene for their success and safe return is a graceful note on which to end<br />

the Book.<br />

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