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δαίμονα. For the identity of priest and god cf. Frazer, G. B. i. 8, iii. 457. The story is familiar in Euripides' drama, ‘Iphigeneia in Tauris,’ and elsewhere. The Tauri may have been a remnant of the Cimmerians driven into the mountains; some have (improbably) connected their name with that of the Celtic Taurisci.

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