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A Homer Commentary in Progress

harpazein ‘snatch, seize’

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Odyssey 15.250-251

Gregory Nagy

... e goddess of the dawn abducts the beautiful young hero Kleitos by way of ‘snatching’ him away, as expressed by the verb harpazein ‘snatch, seize’. The picturing of such an abduction is part of an ov ... Continue reading