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ἄλλο. This second temple was probably founded by Thasian merchants; for Thasos as a Phoenician colony cf. vi. 47 n.

καί emphasizes πέντε: ‘at least five’; cf. v. 59 for a similar reckoning of five generations from Cadmus to the period before the Trojan War, and App. XIV. 2.

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