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παρθένῳ. Artemis Orthia, whose temple stood on the κρημνός in front of the city (Strabo 308). For her worship cf. c. 87 n.

ἐπαναχθέντες, ‘putting out to sea against them’, i. e. they were pirates as well as wreckers; they retained these customs till the first century A. D. (Tac. Ann. xii. 17. 4). The sacrificing of the shipwrecked to the goddess is no doubt a real custom, and probably the origin of the Iphigenia myth.

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