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[510] ἰτέαι has the initial “ϝ”, and is connected with Skt. vI-ti-kA, ‘a string for tying;’ Lat. ‘vitta,’ ‘vitex,’ ‘vimen;’ weide; Engl. withy.

ὠλεσίκαρποι. Pliny, N. H. 16. 26, says, ‘ocissime salix amittit semen antequam omnino maturitatem sentiat, ob id dicta Homero, frugiperda.’ Probably this notion of a waste of life made the willow seem a suitable tree for the groves of Persephone. So the Schol. “οἰκεῖα γὰρ νεκροῖς τὰ ἄκαρπα”.

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