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[97] Cp. Aen.1. 180‘Aeneas scopulum interea conscendit, et omnem

prospectum late pelago petit.’ As the Laestrygones, like the Cyclopes, were only graziers, there would be no ploughed land (“βοῶν ἔργα”), and no vineyards or gardens (“ἀνδρῶν ἔργα”); but the smoke showed that the land was inhabited.

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