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That would make the translation "Be dispersed away from your eyes outwards into the broad streets (broad areas?) the channels of water", in other words a poetic way of saying not to look at other sources, so within the context not to be looking at other women?
HH: This does not work for me. Perhaps some other list members can approve it for you, but the water is not a symbol of other women but of the man's own possession. Nor does the translation work, for it does not function on a literal level. Nobody disperses channels of water away from someone's eyes. So it cannot work on the figurative level. You have tried to combine the literal with the figurative. ...
... The common translation, which you have spurned, although it makes perfectly good sense and is grammatically possible, works on both a literal level and a figurative level.
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