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[222] αἰόλον, sparkling with the light upon the metal surface. This is the only tenable meaning of the word; Buttmann's explanation ‘easily moved’ (Lexil. p. 65) is in the last resort based upon a mistaken notion as to the “μίτρη”. ‘Agile’ is the last epithet to be applied to this shield of Aias.

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