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[111] μύλην στήσασα, apparently ‘stopping the mill’: otherwise he could not have heard what she said. The Greek women at the present day sing while the mill is going, and always stop when you speak to them. Hence the place given to the circumstance in the account of the “φήμη”. It is a ‘sound-note,’ like the step on the threshold ( L. M.J. ).

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