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ποδεῶνας. In the plural, the ‘ragged ends of a skin’, where the feet and tail have been; hence, in the singular, the mouth of a bottle, formed by one of these ends being left open while the others were sewed up. This end was ‘tightly bound round’ (ἀπαμμένους. L. and S., however, seem to take this = ‘hung on the ass’). The ass-driver, pulling at the skins, as if to pull them straight (ἐπισπάς αντα), looses the ends.

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