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[101] τετριγυῖα, the voice is as weak a copy of the living voice as is the “εἴδωλον” of the “αὐτός”. The idea is carried out in Od. 24.6-10 (of the souls of the slain suitors), “ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε νυκτερίδες μυχῶι ἄντρου θεσπεσίοιο τρίζουσαι ποτέονται .. ὣς αἱ τετριγυῖαι ἅμ᾽ ἤϊσαν”. Similarly in Hamlet, ‘The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.’ For similar ideas among modern savages cf. Tylor, Primitive Culture, i. 452.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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