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Platarch Jager Tuile Pevtleas: Vor tive melting air drops
the most dew at full moon, as the Ivrie poet Aleman implies
when We savs that the dew is daughter of the Air and the
Moon:

such as are nursed by the dew that is the daughter
of Zeus and the divine Moon!

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Natalis Comes Wytielogy:* Some authorities have held
that the Moon was the wife of the Air, and by him the
mother of the Dew τ compare the lyric poet Aleman in the
well-known poem :

The dew that is son of moon and air makes the
deergrass to grow.

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Schohast on the /ive?: The termination -o: is used hy
Homer in three cases, genitive, dative. and accusative.
And Aleman the lyric poet uses it in the vocative, thus :
Muse, daughter of Zeus, heavenly Muse. sweet
and clear will I sing ;

for ὠρανίαφι stands for οὐρανία ‘heavenly.’ >

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Schohast on the 70. .ω.7 (‘but having done some ereat thing
that shall be known even to them that are yet to be’): there
WS an omission of the word *‘xooll as in Aleman :

Neighbour is a great thing unto neighbour.

"εὖ, 2 2 555. Apell, Ade. 105. τι Gram. doc. 1, WB. 23
Joipariag! τ᾽ ἀείσοιναι,, LI. SOO, 10, BG. 411. 16, but metre
and grammar alike point to some early corruption, perh, of

> / > 2 ¢£
Oupavia Aly αεἰσομαι

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