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[203] ἴσκε ‘he made like,’ i. e. ‘feigned,’ ‘imitated’: as 4. 279 “φωνὴν ἴσκουσ᾽ ἀλόχοισι”. See also on 22. 31.

ψεύδεα, with λέγων, as in Hes. Theog.27ἴδμεν ψεύδεα πολλὰ λέγειν ἐτύμοισιν ὁμοῖα”.

204-208. Note the difference in the sense of “τήκω”, first (in 204) ‘to moisten’ but in the simile ‘to melt.’

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