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Preceding had come up in this line, Agamemnon 1311: ὅμοιος ἀτμὸς ὥσπερ ἐκ τάφου πρέπει. Smyth translates τάφος as charnel house, which I’d always thought had something to do with charring, which is wrong. It comes from the Late Latin for graveyard. Char, the verb, comes from Charcoal, which has an unrelated origin.

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