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[196] κτίλος, the ram who leads the flock, ‘bell wether’; the simile is given again, at full length, in 13.492. In later Greek the word seems to be used only as an adj. = tame. Cf. Pind. P. ii. 17ἱερέα κτίλον Ἀφροδίτας”.

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