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1 In spite of what Schenkius says in confirmation of Pliny, this is very doubtful. Of course it must increase from childhood, but the increase surely does not continue till the fiftieth year.
2 See an account of him in the Messeniaca of Pausanias.
3 In this part of the story may have originated that of the escape of Sindbad the Sailor, when buried in the vault with the body of his wife.— See the "Arabian Nights."
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