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[64] αἴγειρος is probably the aspen (populus tremula). In Homer this tree is generally represented as growing in marshy soil, Od.17. 208; Il.4. 482, or at any rate in the vicinity of water, as here, and inf. 237; 6. 292. The constant movement of its leaves serves to point a simile in Od.7. 103.Curtius suggests that “αἴγειρος” (“αἰγερ”-j-“ος”) may be connected with “αἰγ-ίς, κατ-αιγ-ίζω”, as populus perhaps with “πάλλω”.

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

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