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The picturesque details of this story (e. g. ἐπιστρεφόμενος, ὀλίγον τι π. and others) mark the born narrator; it is interesting to compare H.'s fulness here with the précis-like brevity of his accounts of manners and customs. But the Babylonian assembly (τὰ κοινά) is a purely Greek detail.

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