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ἀποπτάσθαι: no mere metaphor; the figure had wings, by no meaus an exclusively oriental note, cp. Il. 2. 70.
<*>έ, resumed subject; cp. c. 10, supra ad f. συναλίσας : ἁλίζειν just above; the reference is to c. 8 supra, but is made to the act, not to the record.
ἀγχίστροφα: cp. Thuc. 2. 53. 1 “ἀγχίστροφον τὴν μεταβολὴν ὁρῶντες”. φρενῶν τε γὰρ ... οὔκω ἀνήκω: a sudden access of modesty on the king's part! τὰ ἐμεωυτοῦ πρῶτα, ‘the best of which I am capable.’
παρηγορέεσθαι, 5. 104, 9. 54 (perhaps active in sense).
ἡ νεότης ἐπέζεσε, ‘my youthful spirit boiled up’; in 9. 12 νεότης concrete (juventus). On the actual age of Xerxes vide c. 5 supra. ε<*>πιζέειν, effervescere.
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