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77 Be pia TT/OO? re TOL? TO/COVS KOI ra yvvai/ceia 



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 too-Tre/o T^9 rpvyb? fj pvirro/jLefla. 



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KaOaipeiv ^o\rjv ayaOov &e Kal ocfrOaX/nols' 77/309 

 Se ra apye/j,a irpocrdyeiv TO (f>v\\ov rpityavra ev 

 e\aiw. eyei Be (f)i>\\a /Jiev old-nep Spvs, TO Be 

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rvhaeis conj. Coraes from Plin. 26. 120, eruptiones 



-eis M*Ald. 

 2 Diosc. 2. 164; Plin. 25. 133; 26. 149. 

 a cf. Plin. 23. 63. 



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