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[163] μακών, onomatop., found only in the 2nd aor. and perf. “μέμηκα, μεμα^κυῖα”, and later form “ἐμέμηκον” (see Monro, H. G. § 27). The full phrase used here is found in Il.16. 469 of a horse, and in Od.19. 454 of a boar mortally wounded. In Od.18. 98 it is used of Irus the beggar, with an inten tionally comic effect. The tense seems to express a single loud cry.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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