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πτερῶν. The reference to the heavy snow is another (cf. 25. 1) echo of tradition from the far north.


μακρότατα, with τὰ λέγεται, ‘which are said as to the remotest parts’; for τὰ μακρότατα cf. ii. 32. 3. The sentence sums up briefly what H. had already said in c. 16; the μέν marks the contrast to the Hyperborean story that follows, which is a mere myth.

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