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For the Thesmophoria cf. ii. 171 n., and for similar worships v. 61, 82, 83 n.

οἱ Ἐφέσιοι. This extraordinary ignorance of the fight at Lade may be an excuse put forward when Ephesian abstention from all share in the struggle except this slaughter of the vanquished was accounted treason by patriotic Greeks.

For a real outrage of the kind cf. ch. 138.

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