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e.g. at 8.2i5ff. is much more indulgent. The issue rumbled on, see e.g.
Archilochus fr. 3 West, Eur. Her. 151-203. The lance- and sword-wielding
Franks cultivated a similar attitude; in Roland missiles generally and not just
arrows are contemptible weapons used by a cowardly enemy who dare not
come to close quarters with Roland and Turpin {Roland 2i52ff.)
385 Kepa ayAae: K£pa(a) was also read, without effect on the sense.
Aristarchus (Arn/A) and the Lexica affirm that if KEpas were taken as a
reference to the bow the gibe TO^OTOC would be otiose, and therefore take
K8pas to denote a style of hairdressing, sis KEpcrros Tpoirov OCVETTAEKOVTO oi
dpxocioi. The possibility of this interpretation is confirmed by the term
KepoTrAaoTT|s in Archilochus fr. 117 West and by the monuments, see S.
Marinatos, Arch. Horn, B 12-13. The Homeric use of KEpocs is unhelpful,
being always for the object 'horn' or the material, not for anything made
from it or similar to it. Aristotle (T) paraphrased co TCO TO£CO CTEUVUVOIJEVE.
Paris, however, was a fop (3.17).
388 auTCOS is 'like this', see 17.448-50^
391-3 Diomedes' grim gloating over the weeping widow and desecrated
corpse is calculated to make Paris and the audience shudder. Heroes are
awesome in their threats as in their deeds. ccAAcos ... 6£u (3EAOS TTEAETCCI:
Leaf compares 20.99 dAAoos TOU y' 100 (3EAOS TTETET', where iOu must be
predicative, to suggest that 6£u is predicative here. 6£u (3EAOS is formular
with attributive adjective, cf. 845 and (3EAOS 6£U (2X), and may be so
construed here, TTETETOCI would be easier, but there is no v.l. 6n