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Menelaus’s outer belt

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Menelaus’s outer belt
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Editorial note
The outer belt that checks the arrow and is later undone for treatment.

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outer belt of burnished metal

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Claims

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·Direct

Menelaus’s tight outer belt has golden buckles and is pierced through by the arrow.

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“the golden buckles of the belt that passed over his double cuirass were fastened, so the arrow struck the belt that went tightly round him. It went right through this”
·Reported

Menelaus says his burnished metal outer belt first stayed the arrow.

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“my outer belt of burnished metal first stayed it”
·Direct

Menelaus’s burnished outer belt is undone.

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“He undid the burnished belt,”

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·Direct
“my outer belt of burnished metal first stayed it”
·Direct
“He undid the burnished belt”

Passage preview

Book 4 · Passage 9

But the blessed gods did not forget thee, O Menelaus, and Jove’s daughter, driver of the spoil, was the first to stand before thee and ward off the piercing arrow. She turned it from his skin as a mother whisks a fly from off her child when it is sleeping sweetly; she guided it to the part where the golden buckles of the belt that passed over his double cuirass were fastened, so the arrow struck the belt that went tightly round him. It went right through this and through the cuirass of cunning workmanship; it also pierced the belt beneath it, which he wore next his skin to keep out darts or arrows; it was this that served him in the best stead, nevertheless the arrow went through it and grazed the top of the skin, so that blood began flowing from the wound.