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[578] κακός is predicate, with personal constr.; the meaning being ‘it is a bad thing for an “ἀλήτης” to be “αἰδοῖος”’ (cp. l. 347). It is hardly likely that there is an allusion to the sense in which Ulysses is really “αἰδοῖος” (as Ameis suggests).

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