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[244] Ἄϊδι κεύθωμαι, cf. “μητρὸς δ᾽ ἐν Ἅιδου καὶ πατρὸς κεκευθότοιν” Soph. Ant. [911], “παρ᾽ Ἅιδαι κεύθωνSoph. Aj. 635, “ δὲ θανὼν κεύθει κάτωθεν γῆςSoph. O. T. 968.Were not the act. in H. always used transitively, it would be tempting on the analogy of these passages to read “κεκύθωμι”: Bentley's “κεκύθωμαι” may be right. The local use of Ἄϊδι seems to indicate a later origin; see on 1.3. A has the curious variant “κλεύθωμαι”, which acc. to An.was supported by Ar. and explained “ἀντὶ τοῦ κελεύθωμαι, οἷον πορεύομαι”. This may perhaps have been to avoid the purely local use, as with it “Ἄϊδιmight be personal. But except in Hesych. there is no other trace of such a verb. A further mentions a variant “ἰών” for ἐγώ, perhaps with the same object.

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