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[463] ἀσκελέες. Here in its primary physical sense, from “σκέλλω”, ‘dry.’ They are represented as ‘withered,’ or perhaps rather, ‘weakened,’ as the good condition at least of the first batch of visitors had been renewed since their restoration to human shape. With ἀσκελέες compare the use of “αὐσταλέος”, as contrasted with one who has been duly washed and anointed, Od.19. 327.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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