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“But, my boy,” said Astyages, “we do not object to this wandering about; and you also,” he added, “if you taste, will see that it is pleasant.”“But, grandfather,” said Cyrus, “I observe that even you are disgusted with these viands.”“And by what, pray, do you judge, my boy,” asked Astyages, “that you say this?”“Because,” said he, “I observe that when you touch bread, you do not wipe your hand on anything; but when you touch any of these other things you at once cleanse your hand upon your napkin, as if you were exceedingly displeased that it had become soiled with them.”
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 5 and 6. Walter Miller. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1914.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes, 39
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, VERBAL NOUNS
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.2
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter V
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- LSJ, ἀποκαθαίρω
- LSJ, ἀποψάω
- LSJ, μυ^σ-άττομαι
- LSJ, περιπλα^ν-άομαι
- LSJ, πλέως
- LSJ, θιγγάνω
- LSJ, χειρό-μακτρον
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