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[349] With εἴκοσι we must supply the idea times from the termination of “δεκάκις”, a rather violent resource, but apparently the best. Cf. Theokr. xv. 129 “ὀκτωκαιδεκέτης ἐννεακαίδεχ᾽ γαμβρός”. The tradition reads “εἰκοσινήριτα” in one word, A adding the ‘hyphen.’ This may be explained (a) “εἰκοσιν-ήριτα”, twenty-counted, where -“ήριτα” is to be taken as an equivalent of -“άκις”; (b) “εἰκοσι-νήριτα”, twenty-countless, which hardly makes sense. “νήριτος” occurs also in Hes. Opp. 511νήριτος ὕλη”, and Ap. Rhod.iii. 1288 in the sense countless, and it is easy to connect it with “ἀριθμός” (Curt. Et. no. 488). Compare the very similar 9.379.

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    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 511
    • Homer, Iliad, 9.379
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.1288
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