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Sot, [xo-Kap, det'Soj, yai-qg ipLKvSes epeiafia, 

 (f>€yyos evvaXicov TToXvqparov AlveaSdcov, 

 AvaovLOV TjTjvos yXvKepov ddXos, 'AvTcovlve' 

 Tov fMeydXr] pieydXco ^trucraro Ao/xra JLe^-qpo), 

 oX^LW evvTjdelcra /cat oX^lov (hhivaaa, 

 vv/j,(f)7] dpLcrroTToaeLa, Ae;^cu 8e re /caAAtro/ceta, 

 'AaavpLT) K.v6ep€La /cat ov Xelnovaa HeXijvq, 

 ovSev d<^avp6r€pov TjTjvos KpovtSao yevedXiqs' 

 {evfieveoL Ttrav ^aedcov /cat Oot^o? ^AttoXXojv.) 

 rep pa TTarrjp fieydXrjaL TTOvqadfievos TTaXdpLrjai^ 

 bdJKev ep^eti' irdaav rpa^epiqv, Trdaav Se /cat vyp-^v. 

 arol jjLev yap daXedovaa /cuet TrdvScopos dpovpa, 

 /cat TraAtv evSiocoaa rpi^ei /cAuto. ^uAa ddXaaaa' 



^ V.l. KpaTeprjcri. 



" M. Auielius Severus Antoninus Augustus (Caracalla), 

 Emperor a.d. 211-217. 



* Romans. Lucret. i. 1 ; Verg. Aen. viii. 648. 



* Italian. 



<* = l)ivus, of Roman Emperors ; here of L. Septimius 

 Severus Pertinax Augustus, Emperor a.d. 193-211, in which 

 year (4 Feb.) he died at York. 



' Julia D. of Emesa in Syria, second wife of Severus 

 (Gibbon c. (i) ; died a.d. 217. 



f The Syrian (Assyrian) Ashtoreth or Astarte, the 

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