οὐ μή with both fut. indicative and subjunctive (= Revelation 2:11), in emphatic assertions. For the absence of scorching as a trait of the Hellenic Utopia, cf. Dieterich, 31 33. If καῦμα corresponds here to the sense of the Isaianic equivalent καύσων, the reference is to the scorching sirocco. So the Egyptian dead yearned for a cooling breeze in the next world “Let me be placed by the edge of the water with my face to the north, that the breeze may caress me, and my heart be refreshed from its sorrows” (see Maspero, Dawn of Civil, p. 113).

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