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πομπ-αῖος , α, ον,
A.escorting, conducting, π. οὖρος a fair wind, Pi.P.1.34; so of a ship, “εἰς ὅρμους . . ἐλάτα π.” E.IA1322 (lyr.).
II. epith. of Hermes, who escorted the souls of the dead to the nether world, A.Eu.91, S.Aj.832, E.Med.759 (anap.), D.L.8.31.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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