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[253] Βορέῃ, an instrumental, with a partly comitative force. This use of the dat. is comparatively rare in the singular.

ἀκραέϊ seems to mean ‘blowing at its height,’ with the subsidiary notion of rightness or perfection. This metaphorical use of “ἄκρος” is common in later Greek, but there is no other example in Homer. See the note on 2. 421.

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