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[176] σῆμα is slightly different from the “σήματα” of 168, and signifies the tessera hospitalis as a whole, apart from the marks which determined its significance. φέροιτο: the use of the middle is unusual, but clearly means ‘brought for his own behoof.’ To take it as a pass. would be entirely un-Homeric.
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