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90.

Such was their armor. The Cyprians furnished a hundred and fifty ships; for their equipment, their princes wore turbans wrapped around their heads, and the people wore tunics, but in all else they were like the Greeks. These are their tribes:1 some are from Salamis and Athens, some from Arcadia, some from Cythnus, some from Phoenice, and some from Ethiopia, as the Cyprians themselves say.

1 That is, the entire population contains everywhere these component parts; they are not locally separate.

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    • Harper's, Dialects
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CYPRUS
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