[506] The triple invocation at a funeral is as old as Hom. Od. 9. 65, who makes Ulysses after his defeat by the Cicones not put to sea πρίν τινα τῶν δειλῶν ἑτάρων τρὶς ἕκαστον ἀῧσαι. Comp. also v. 231 above, 3. 68.
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