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Atlantes

（Ἄτλαντες). An African people living near Mt. Atlas who daily cursed the sun at its rising and setting for its heat. (Herod.iv. 184).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.184
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