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Θάσον. The attraction was doubtless the gold mines (ii. 44; vi. 46). For Atarneus cf. i. 160 n.; for the Caician plain ii. 10 n., and for its fruitfulness Strabo 624 σφόδρα εὐδαίμονα γῆν σχεδὸν δέ τι τὴν ἀρίστην τῆς Μυσίας.


Ἅρπαγος. Can this otherwise unknown Persian general be a descendant of Harpagus, the Mede conqueror of this region half a century earlier? (i. 162 f.). If so, he should not be called ἀνὴρ Πέρσης.

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