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[529] ἱέμενος, ‘moving towards the current of the (Ocean-)stream.’ Odysseus is supposed to be standing on the “ἀκτή” on the further side of “Ὠκεανός”, facing the western darkness: now he is bidden to turn away towards the stream and so to face the living world. Thus the words form an epexegesis to “ἀπονόσφι”. Dr. Hayman quotes Soph. O. C.490; Theocr. 24. 94; Virg. Ecl.8. 102; Virg. Aen.6. 224.

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    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 490
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.224
    • Vergil, Eclogues, 8
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