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καταιθύσσει: καταιθύσσειν is used of Iason's hair that streamed down his back (P. 4.83), and is well suited to the meteoric Kastor, called by the sailors of to-day St. Elmo's fire.

μάκαιραν ἑστίαν: Cf. O. 1.11.


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