epi-stenein ‘wail in response’

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Iliad 24.720–776/ anchor comment on: laments at Hector's funeral

... women of Troy but the entire dēmos or ‘populace’ of the city joins the antiphonal singing, as signaled here by the verb epi-stenein ‘wail in response’: ‘So she [= Helen] spoke, and the vast populace [dēm ... Continue reading