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πατριαί, ‘clans.’ H. refers to the dwellers in the marshy regions along the lower course of the rivers and on the Persian Gulf. Diodorus (iii. 22) gives an interesting account of the methods of fish-catching there. H. exaggerates their fish diet.

For the pounding of dried fish ‘with pestles’ (ὑπέροισι) in a mortar (ὄλμον) cf. iv. 172. 1. The μᾶζα is a soft cake, softened with water, the ἄρτος (a superior form) was baked.

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