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”instead of "wet" clothes, and, somewhere in the early comedy,“the place is 'pordacian,'
”that is, the place that is "marshy"? Lesbos is equidistant from Tenedos and Lemnos and Chios, one might say rather less than five hundred stadia.
1 i.e., they avoid "pord," which, as also "perd," is the stem of an indecent Greek word.
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