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[88] χειμάρρωι, winter-torrent, of sudden winter rains or melting snow. For ἐκέδασσε Naber and Nauck conj. “ἐκέασσε”, splits (16.347); but this would be more in place of the bursting of a reservoir; here the picture is rather that of the gradual carrying away of the banks. But compare the imitation in Virg. Aen. ii. 496 “aggeribus ruptis cum spumeus amnis” , etc.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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