[178] Intemerata seems to include the two notions which have been assigned to the word by Wagn. and Wund., the wine being both unmixed and choice (unblemished, as victims are called ‘egregii’ &c.). The feeling is the same in Aesch. Ag. 94, φαρμασσομένη χρίματος ἁγνοῦ Μαλακαῖς ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις. The hearth was the altar of the Penates. ‘Honore’ v. 118. ‘Laetus:’ the performance of the sacrifice had apparently given him time to recover himself, so that he could tell his father with pleasure (v. 169). ‘Perfecto:’ see on 4. 639.
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