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From what does the place Panhaema on the
island of Samos derive its name?
Is it because the Amazons sailed from the country
of the Ephesians1 across to Samos when they were
endeavouring to escape from Dionysus? But he built
boats and crossed over and, joining battle, slew many
of them near this place, which the spectators in
amazement called Panhaema2 because of the vast
quantity of blood shed there. And of the elephants3
some are said to have been slain near Phloeum, and
their bones are pointed out there ; but some relate
that Phloeum also was cleft by them as they uttered
a loud and piercing cry.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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