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[255] ‘See that you do not in right bitter and terrible fashion take your vengeance,’ i.e. ‘I fear that instead of taking vengeance you will suffer a terrible fate.’ The expression is a kind of oxymoron: cp. 17. 448 “μὴ τάχα πικρὴν Αἴγυπτον καὶ Κύπρον ἵκηαι”, i.e. ‘something bitter instead of Egypt and Crete.’

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