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Only the lower classes in Egypt live with animals, and this is true of other countries as well; H.'s generalization is quite wrong.

ὄλυρα. L. & S., s. v., suggest ‘rye’, but leave the question of its identity with ‘spelt’, ξειά (s. v.), open. Wiedemann thinks it = ‘durra’, which is often represented in the monuments, while ‘spelt’ is absent from them. H. here (cf. c. 77) again generalizes wrongly from his guide; the lower classes in Egypt eat bread made of ‘durra’; wheat and barley were both also used by the upper classes, but (B. M. G. p. 82) wheat only ‘rarely’ by the lower.

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