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δορπίη: the evening meal; hence Schweighäuser translates ‘the eve of the feast’. This was the name of the first day of the Apaturia, which began with a meal at 6 p.m. The Egyptian day began at midnight, not 6 p.m., and Stein translates ‘the closing feast’ (i.e. the δόρπον here ended, not began, the festival). But H.'s words ‘they keep the rest of the feast’ imply that he at least thought that the δόρπον came first.

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