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[285] If we join ἄνεμος ἐκ πόντου we may compare it with “πλημυρὶς ἐκ πόντοιο” inf. 486. Others join φέρεν ἐκ πόντου, ‘brought in from the open sea;’ i. e. they were driven on a leeshore, which explains the reason of their coming at all to the land of the Cyclopes.

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