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[281] ἐπίκλοπος ... μύθων, ‘deceitful of speech’; with τις, ‘a man of cunning words.’ You think you can frighten me by your bold speech so that I shall run, as before; and then you may transfix me as I flee; but you shall not (l. 283); I will face you squarely now (l. 284).

Selections from Homer's Iliad, with an introduction, notes, a short Homeric grammar, and a vocabulary. Allen Rogers Benner. New York. Irvington Publishers, Inc. 1903.

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