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[323] θυμοφθόρος ‘corrupting the mind,’ ‘heart-breaking,’ i. e. vexing beyond endurance. So in 4. 716 “ἄχος θυμοφθόρον”, of the ‘crushing grief’ of Penelope on hearing of the departure of Telemachus: and Il.6. 169θυμοφθόρα σήματα” of the letter which was to poison the mind of the King of Lycia against Bellerophon. Cp. “θυμοδακὴς μῦθος” (8. 185), also “θυμοβόρος” (of “ἔρις”, &c.).

323-324. ‘He will bring nothing to an issue in this house, however furiously wrathful he may be,’ i. e. ‘he will have no success in his wooing, and I will not care how he may storm.’

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