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palimpetes
falling back
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falling back, Nonn. D. 3.30; recurrent, Theol.Ar. 57: in early writers only in neut. as Adv., back again, ἂψ ἐπὶ νῆας ἔεργε παλιμπετές Il. 16.395; ὡς . . ἐν νηῒ παλιμπετὲς ἀπονέωνται Od. 5.27, cf. Call. Del. 294, A.R. 2.1250, etc.
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