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ε2107Ἐπέφυclung to… -- the opening adverb (alpha 3688) is omitted -- of Polybius 12.10.6 (web address 1), preserved in the Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus 1.128.4-5. The subject is his especial bugbear Timaeus [tau 600, etc.] and …Matched in noteshighshort

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Ἐπέφυ

clung to

Meaning [he/she/it] held. "But, as the saying goes, he [sc. would have] clung [fast] to it with both his hands."

Ἐπέφυ· ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐκράτησεν. ἀλλὰ τὸ δὴ λεγόμενον ἀμφοῖν ταῖν χεροῖν ἐπέφυ.