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[223] ἀλλὰ φόωσδε. His mother ends her words by bidding him press forward to regain the light of the upper world again, and ‘bear in mind’ (ἴσθι), she says, ‘all these things, that thou mayest hereafter tell them to thy wife.’ We may interpret the last words of Anticlea's speech as expressive of nothing more than a kindly feeling towards Penelope: as Eustath., “πρὸς ἔνδειξιν δηλαδὴ φιλίας”.

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