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καταλαμβάνῃ: here and in iii. 139. 2 in a favourable sense ‘might come on and shelter them’, elsewhere of some unlooked-for or unlucky chance; e. g. ch. 109. 5; ix. 60. 3.

ἐκφεύξεσθαι, ‘it seemed to all appearance likely that the Greeks would escape.’

πυρφόρος. In a Spartan army (Xen. Rep. Lac. xiii. 2) the ‘torchbearer’ took the sacred fire from the altar of Zeus Agetor and kept it always alight for use in the sacrifices for the army. His person was by Hellenic custom inviolable, hence the proverb οὐδὲ πυρφόρος ἐλείφθη (Zenob. v. 34, &c.) signified utter destruction.

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