δείματος, a word often used of a terrifying dream: Aesch. Ch. 523“ἔκ τ ὀνειράτων” | “καὶ νυκτιπλάγκτων δειμάτων πεπαλμένη” | “χοὰς ἔπεμψε τάσδε δύσθεος γυνή”. Eur. Hec. 69“τί ποτ᾽ αἴρομαι ἔννυχος οὕτω” | “δείμασι, φάσμασιν”; Lycophion 225 “ἀπῶσαι νυκτίφοιτα δείματα”. δοκεῖν ἐμοί: cp. O. T. 82“ἀλλ᾽ εἰκάσαι μέν, ἡδύς” (n.). At v. 426 she speaks positively; as if the recital of the dream had raised her surmise into certainty.
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