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Caunus lay in south Caria: it was in the Rhodian περαια. Thucydides (i. 116. 3) also distinguishes it from Caria.

κατ᾽ ἡλικίην, ‘according to age and affection.’ H. puts this in to show the drinking bouts were not tribal.


ἡβηδόν, ‘in full force’ (vi. 21. 1).

Calynda lay to the south-east on the Lycian frontier.

ἐκβάλλειν. For this expulsion cf. Tylor (P. C. ii. 199) who says the Australians ‘annually drive from their midst the accumulated ghosts of the last year's dead’. So too the modern Greek will discharge firearms to drive away an earthquake.

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