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[10] κᾤχετ᾽ ἔχων, 'he took with him,' the emphasis being on the participle; καταγελῶν τῆς πόλεως ἄπεισιν, Lysias, xv. 10.

σκαπάναν δίκελλαν ἄμην: οἱ γὰρ γυμνασταὶ τούτοις ἐχρῶντο ὑπὲρ γυμνασίας (for exercise) τῇ σκαπάνῃ σκάπτοντες καὶ τὰ ἄνω μέρη τοῦ σώματος ἀναρρωνύντες, Schol. The athletes trained for thirty days at Elis before going to Olympia (Frazer on Pausanias, vi. 23. 1). The twenty sheep are of course provisions for the month. Briggs quotes well from St. Chrysostom αἰτεῖται τὴν πάλην καὶ φεύγει τὸ σκάμμα.

τουτόθε see on iii. 10.


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