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φαρμακεύσαντες: of the secret rites, spells, or incantations which accompanied the sacrifice (i. 132. 3), which made the Greeks use the word μάγος for ‘wizard’ (Soph. Oed. Tyr. 387); cf. App. VIII. 5.

Ἐννέα ὁδοῖσι: twenty-five stades up stream from Eion, where the Athenians built Amphipolis in 437 B.C. For the bridge cf. ch. 24.

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