[300] “ὧδέ σφι κτλ”.: thus may for them, etc. The pers. pron. is used instead of the dem., since the protasis has hypothetical force; see on “Β 392. — ὡς ὅδε οἶνος”: symbolical actions were customary in curses and conjurations; cf. (fetialis) ‘si prior defexit publico consilio dolo malo, tum illo die, Iuppiter, populum Romanum sic ferito ut ego hunc porcum hic hodie feriam.’ ... id ubi dixit, porcum saxo silice percussit Livy i. 24, (Hannibal) eaque utrata scirent fore agnum laeva manu dextera silicem retinens, si falleret, Iovem ceterosque precatus deos, ita se mactarent, quem ad modum ipse agnum mactasset, secundum precationem caput pecudis saxo elisit ib. xxi. 45, ‘As sinks that blood stream in the earth, | So may his heart's blood drench his hearth’ Scott Lady of the Lake iii. 1.
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