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[505] ἄκριτα. This epithet, as applied to words, from its radical meaning of ‘without separation,’ may signify either ‘endless’ (as Il.2. 796), or, secondly, ‘without decision,’ or, thirdly, ‘indiscriminate;’ and this either of one person saying contradictory things, or of many persons contradicting each other. Virgil's description of this very debate— Aen.2. 39‘Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus’—unites two of these meanings; incertum expressing the ‘want of decision,’ and studia contraria the ‘different views.’ ἄκριτα corresponds rather to the last;—the contradiction between the views of different speakers.

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