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[282] The position of ὡς before a substantive without a finite verb, instead of after it (“ὥς”), is very rare. The simile is clearly taken from the practice of sending swine to fatten in the oak-woods on the mountains in autumn, and driving them home as winter comes on; “uvidus hiberna venit de glande Menalcas, Ec. x. 20.

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