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[279] εἰπέ. ‘Tell me where you moored your ship when you came here.’ For ἔχειν νῆα in this sense cp. Od.10. 91; Hdt.6. 95.

The use of the participle ἰών merely as a graphic addition may be paralleled by similar usage in Attic, as “ὅσην κατ᾽ αὐτὼν ὕβριν ἐκτίσαιτ᾽ ἰώνSoph. Aj.304.

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    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.95
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