Ἐξένισεν
entertained
Translated by William Hutton2 Mar 2007Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] received [someone] as a guest.1 Also meaning [he/she/it] killed. Elektra says: "Ares," she says, "did not entertain him."2 That is, did not kill [him]; for the 'entertainment of Ares' [is] wounds and massacres. And Archilochos [writes]: "bestowing grievous entertainments on enemies."3 These are things that Orestes' sister dirges.4