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[203] ἀμφεπένοντο, attended to him; an ironical expression as 23.184, the word being properly used of tending a wounded man; 4.220, 16.28. The eels are separated from the fish because they were regarded as snakes, as indeed the name shews (if conn. with “ἔχιδνα, ἔχις”, Curt. Et. no. 172). The explanation of the Schol. ‘eels and other fishes’ is therefore wrong. (So also 353.)

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