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stone set over Elpenor’s cairn

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stone set over Elpenor’s cairn
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headland of Elpenor’s funeral1 observation
·Remembered

The stone over Elpenor’s cairn was set at the funeral headland.

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“‘Then, when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, I sent some men to Circe’s house to fetch the body of Elpenor. We cut firewood from a wood where the headland jutted out into the sea, and after we had wept over him and lamented him we performed his funeral rites. When his body and armour had been burned to ashes, we raised a cairn, set a stone over it, and at the top of the cairn we fixed the oar that he had been used to row with. ”

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·Remembered

A stone is set over Elpenor’s raised cairn.

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“we raised a cairn, set a stone over it, and at the top of the cairn”

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·Remembered
“we raised a cairn, set a stone over it”

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Book 12 · Passage 2

‘Then, when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, I sent some men to Circe’s house to fetch the body of Elpenor. We cut firewood from a wood where the headland jutted out into the sea, and after we had wept over him and lamented him we performed his funeral rites. When his body and armour had been burned to ashes, we raised a cairn, set a stone over it, and at the top of the cairn we fixed the oar that he had been used to row with.