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[397] οὔ τι ἔπος, literally, ‘he spoke no right word;’ virtually equivalent to, ‘the word he spoke was by no means right.’ Similarly, Od.14. 509οὐδέ τί πω παρὰ μοῖραν ἔπος νηκερδὲς ἔειπες”. No doubt the phrase in Hdt.5. 50οὐδένα λόγον εὐεπέα λέγεις” is imitated from the Homeric expression.

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