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προβάλλουσι, ‘in utter despair.’ The idea comes from the action of throwing themselves on the ground in despair; cf. Cic. Tusc. ii. 54 ‘Qui doloris speciem ferre non possunt abiciunt se atque ita adflicti et exanimati iacent’.

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