cf. scholion on Homer, Iliad 10.183, where the headword occurs (of dogs protecting livestock). In some of the mss and sources of indirect tradition it is duswrh/sontai, as here, but most editors have preferred duswrh/swntai; cf. also Hesychius (who glosses, correspondingly, with dusfulakth/swsi). In the Homeric Lexicon of Apollonius it is given (60.26) as the active duswrh/swsi. See generally LSJ s.v. (at web address 1).