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[462] ζωάγρια, as Nitzsch reminds us, bears quite a different sense in the Iliad, as Il.18. 407, where it signifies the price paid to a conqueror for sparing the life of a defeated foeman; here it is the debt of gratitude for having saved life by timely intervention. But ‘the price of life’ will express both meanings.

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