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A Homer Commentary in Progress

Iliad 08.315

Greg Nagy

Last updated at March 12, 2020, 4:44 p.m.

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At the moment of his death here, the hero’s menos ‘mental power’ is released from his body, and, in the present context, the noun psūkhē ‘spirit’ is used as a synonym of menos.