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ἔβαλεν: Gnomic.

Αἰδώς: As a personification. Reverence is the daughter of Wisdom. If knowledge were wisdom, it would not be necessary to say “Let knowledge grow from more to more | Yet more of reverence in us dwell.” The reverence here is the respect to the χρέος. For the personification see P. 5.27: τὰν Ἐπιμαθέος ... ὀψινόου θυγατέρα Πρόφασιν.


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