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[12] ῥιπ̂ης, the rush of fire, as of the wind, 15.171. “ ἠερέθονται ”, take wing. This mode of dealing with locusts is said by the scholia to be characteristic of Cyprus, and has indeed been practised there till recent years. Strabo says that the same device was used by the locust-eating tribes in Aithiopia (xvi. p. 772).

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