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[353] ἐικυῖα. Not like a sea-bird in shape, but in the sudden plunge with which she dives into the sea. Nitzsch compares from Apoll. Rhod. 4. 966, a similar description of the Nereids, “ἔνθ᾽ αἱ μὲν κατὰ βένθος ἀλίγκιαι αἰθυίῃσι

δῦνον”.

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