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[48] πολύκμητος, implements wrought with much labour. The working of iron was of course a difficult matter in early days, especially as by primitive methods of smelting it would be obtained not in the pure malleable condition, but combined with a certain amount of carbon, making it more like cast-iron, hard and brittle.

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