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From Apollonius, illustrating Aeolic dialect in the word

Athenaeus quotes this to show that there is not necessarily any reproach in the word, Like many others, this fragment is unfortunately too short for anything but a literal translation. The breathing of the word in question in Attic Greek would of course be rough.

From the “Etymologicum Magnum,” tenth century A.D.