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ἐν τῆ Αἰθιοπίη: in iii. 111. 1 H. says the Arabs say that cinnamon grows ‘in the land where Dionysus was brought up’ (i. e. Ethiopia). cf. iii. 97. 2 n. for the Ethiopians who worship Dionysus round Νύση ἱρή: also 29.7 nn. It is noticeable, however, that H. only gives the connexion between Dionysus and Ethiopia as the belief of Greeks and Arabs, not as his own.

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