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[597] ἀπάλαμνος, which occurs only here in H., may mean, as suggested by Autenrieth, ‘unable to swim,’ sine palmis. But it is more likely to be shiftless, without resource, as in later Greek (= “ἀπάλαμος”, Hes. Opp. 20, etc.).

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