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[460] ἁλιμυρήεντα. This is commonly rendered ‘running with noise into the sea,’ according to the old interpretations, “ἐς θάλασσαν ῥέων, ὁ τὴν ἰδίαν μοῖραν ἐμβάλλων ἐν ἁλί” Schol. B. on Il.21. 190.And it certainly appears in that passage as a generic epithet of rivers. But others prefer to narrow it to the epithet of a river at the moment of embouchement, and render it ‘maris aestu redundans,’ i. e. met and forced back by the sea water.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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