A Pome - on Scent

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A Pome - on Scent

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Sometimes there are salespeople wandering the halls where I work, hunting down doctors they want to try out some fabulous new drug. Some of these people are nice, but there seems to be a subpopulation that devotes too much of their spare time to tanning booths. A very few apparently bathe in their cologne or perfume. It's like someone shoved a lilac up my sinuses.

παντοδαπῶς με τυφλοῖ μύ?ου ὀδμὴ ᾧ σὺ κέχ?ισαι·
κείνης πως ὀδμῆς κ?υπτομένη κακίων;


ὀδμὴ ᾧ I took a Homeric license at the bucolic caesura.

I used to be able to indent. How vexing.

Edit: idiotic typo in second line fixed.
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/http://www.scholiastae.org/
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;

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