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[203] μισγέμεναι ‘to bring into, make acquainted with.’ The inf. is construed as with a verb of privative meaning, ‘pity in regard to mixing’=‘pity so as not to mix.’ Cp. Il.7. 408κατακαιέμεν οὔ τι μεγαίρω: οὐ γάρ τις φειδὼ . . . μειλισσέμεν”: Soph. Aj.652οἰκτείρω δέ νιν χήραν παρ᾽ ἐχθροῖς παῖδά τ᾽ ὀρφανὸν λιπεῖν”.

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