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συμμεταχειρίζεσθαι...κοσμῆσαι ‘help in tending’,... ‘dress’ (for the πρόθεσις). Soph. El. 1139, οὔτ᾽ ἐν φίλαισι χερσὶν ἡ τάλαιν̓ ἐγὼ | λουτροῖς σ᾽ ἐκόσμης᾿ ...ἀλλ̓ ἐν ξέναισι χερσὶ κηδευθεὶς τάλας, κ.τ.λ. Ant. 903, τὸ σὸν | δέμας περιστέλλουσα: so componere. Here συμμεταχειρίζ. refers esp. to the washing of the corpse: Lucian Περὶ πένθους, 11, λούσαντες...μύρῳ χρίσαντες...καὶ στεφανώσαντες τοῖς ὡραίοις ἄνθεσι, προτίθενται, λαμπρῶς ἀμφιέσαντες.
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