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[431] ἐεικοσάβοια, perhaps we may supply “κτέατα”, or some such word. Twenty oxen was a high price for a slave, as ( Il.23. 705) four oxen is the set value of one who “πολλὰ ἐπίστατο ἔργα”.

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