Book 8
Book 8 (θ)
Commentary on line 3
ptoli/porqos (πτολιπόρθιος Od.9. 504, 530). This epithet is in the Odyssey used only of Odysseus, Od.16. 442; ( Il.2. 278), with special reference to the craft by which he enabled the Greeks to take Ilium. Elsewhere it is used in a more general sense as an epithet of Ares, Il.20. 152; of Enyo, Il.5. 333; of Achilles, Il.15. 77; of Oileus, Il.2. 728; of Otrynteus, Il.20. 384.Cp. Od.1. 2.
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