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and among athlete men he is as the bronze-grinding Naxian whetstone amid stones[1].
Now will I give him to drink of the holy water of Dirke, which golden-robed Mnemosyne's deep-girdled daughters made once to spring out of the earth, beside the well-walled gates of Kadmos.
- ↑ I. e. he stimulates their zeal and skill. The Naxian whetstone seems to be emery.
