epi–stenakhesthai ‘wail in response’

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Iliad 22.476–515/ anchor comment on: three laments by Andromache, part 2

... ponse’ (ὣς ἔφατο κλαίουσ’, ἐπὶ δὲ στενάχοντο γυναῖκες). The antiphonal refrain here at I.22.515 is signaled by the verb epi–stenakhesthai ‘wail in response’, matching the antiphonal refrain at I.19.301 in resp ... Continue reading