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[611] χαροποί is commonly referred to “χαρά”, as expressing ‘wild joy;’ but this gives no very clear idea. Perhaps it is better with Curtius to refer the first part of the word to the Skt. root ghar, ‘to glow,’ or, with Fick, the whole form to gharap = ‘to sparkle.’

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

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