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καταπακτῆς: neither the form, which should be καταπηκτῆς, nor the sense, ‘fast closed,’ are satisfactory. Read καταρρακτῆς (Reiske) (cf. Livy xxvii. 28 cataracta), or κατεπακτῆς (Stein), ‘closing downwards,’ i. e. a trap-door; cf. Pollux x. 25.

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