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[149] Προβιβῶν: for the form see on 225.

ὥς Περ ἐΠ᾽ οὔδει, “as (might be expected) on the floor”; i.e. there was no echo in the cave; cf. the common Attic use of “ὡς” in “οὐδὲ ἀδύνατος, ὡς Λακεδαιμόνιος, εἰπεῖνThuc.iv. 84, etc. This sense seems quite satisfactory, though there is neatness in Fick's “ὥς περ ἐπωδῇ” (B. B. xxii. 269).


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