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[630] Helbig has well remarked how the overmastering admiration for physical beauty which is so characteristic of the Greek mind has in these lines — where the beauty of the old man is as vividly recognized as that of the young — one of its most striking as well as of its earliest expressions. ἄντα, face to face, i.e. when brought into comparison. Cf. 1.187ὁμοιωθήμεναι ἄντην”.

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