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τὰ ἄχθεα κτλ.: this contrast is wrong; all that can be said is that some loads were carried by men ‘on their heads’, e.g. the baker in Gen. xl. 16, while the women probably carried their babies ‘on their shoulders’, like the modern Fellahîn (cf. B. M. G. p. 78).

ἐσθίουσι: the Egyptian upper classes certainly did not eat out of doors; H. only saw the Egyptians of the streets.

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