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ἀποστρέφουσι, ‘they bend back the neck’ (for the knife). R. Neumann (p. 136) thinks the piece was thrown over the tent, to bring it under the protection of the god.

Ποσειδέωνι. H., in ii. 50. 2, when deriving the names of most Greek gods from Egypt, makes that of Poseidon to be Libyan. It is natural to connect this derivation with the Minyan element at Cyrene; Farnell (C. G. S. iv. 27) says, ‘Wherever the worship of Poseidon is prominent, we find either a Thessalian-Minyan or an Ionic influence’; the Minyans, who are prominent all through the story of the foundation of Cyrene, not unnaturally pretended that their cult-god was there before them. H., in this chapter and the next, adopts the theories of North African origins in their extremest form (v. i.); the fact that he gives them this exaggerated value goes far to prove that he heard them on the spot.

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