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Near Olynthus is a hollow place which is called Cantharolethron1 from what happens there; for when the insect called the Cantharos, which is found all over the country, touches that place, it dies.
1 "Beetle-death."
Strabo. ed. H. L. Jones, The Geography of Strabo. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.
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