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[291] ἄλσος Ἀθήνηςαἰγείρων, ‘a grove of Athena, of poplars.’ So “ἄλσος ὑδατοτρεφέων αἰγείρων Od.17. 208.It is simpler to take αἰγείρων depending on ἄλσος as a material genitive, and as adding a further description of “ἄλσος”, than to explain the two genitives on the analogy of the Attic double genitive, as in “εὐνῆς παροψώνημα τῆς ἐμῆς χλιδῆςAesch. Ag.1442.

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