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APPENDIX II The excerpt reproduced below is from A Greek-English Lexicon, byLiddell and Scott. Motivated by his desire to understand emendation number 3 in Schweighaeuser 's text (seeAppendix I) which gives fiXiog as a variation of fjXiog (Sun), Pound opens his Greek lexicon and discovers that tiXiog (1) is the Doric form for fjXiog (the Attic form of the poetic fiXiog). Furthermore, he also notices that there are two more entries for ftXiog, "of the sea" (2), and ^Xiog = ucVcaiog, "fruitless, unprofitable,idle ..." (3).This process of looking up words in the dictionary is then reproduced by Pound in line 25 of canto 23. Having observed that fiXiog = udtcuog, Pound also transcribes this and the lexicographer's remark "(Deriv. uncertain)" [not shown in excerpt] in line 26 of canto 23 (4). In addition, Pound notices that the triple c&iog is "enclosed" in the lexicon by the following two words: dXi^avtog, "worn by the sea,"and aXio-ip£tyt]<;, "sea-reared" (5). Since these two words are consistent with the double meaning of the nature of the sea, he transliterates and transcribes them in line 28 of canto 23. 192 ...

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