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Word EVA apo,rairapy
The word apo,rairapy (105v.32), transcribed by Takahashi as aporair.apy, is unique in the manuscript. I propose reading it as two words: aporais ap9.
The word aporais may be the name of an mollusc ἀπορραΐς/ aporrhais:

• ἀπορραΐς, for αἱμορροΐς – kind of shell-fish, perh. Aporrhais pes-pelicani; in Gloss. expld. by murex.
  

The Greek word ἀπορραΐς can be also a verb:

• ἀπορραΐς, 2nd sg future epic of απορραινω – spirt out, shed about; sprinkle, shower, esp. in Med., sprinkle by way of lustration; Pass., to be dissolved.
  

If we read ai as η, we find two more verbs:

• ἀπορῇς, 2nd sg pres ind/ subj of ἀφοράω/ Ion. ἀπορέω – look away from all others at one, have in view; look at; of a remote object; of Places, look towards; to view from a place; rarely, look away, have the back turned;
  
• ἀπορῇς, 2nd sg pres subj of απορεω2 (Lacon) – to be ἄπορος, i. e. without means or resource: hence, to be at a loss, be in doubt, be puzzled; in Dialectic, start a question, raise a difficulty; to be at a loss for, in want of; to be in want, to be poor;
  
• ἀπορῇς, 2nd sg future Doric of ἀπορραίνω (see above).
  

The word apy can be ἆπος = αἶπος – height, steep, unless it is ἄπους – without foot or feet, in reference to the mollusc aporrhais ?