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οἱ λέγοντες, not ‘that they had sailed round it’, but that ‘it could be sailed round’ (περίρρυτος 42. 2). Unluckily H. gives no details as to Carthaginian testimony; the voyage of Hanno (v. s.) was probably about fifty years before his birth (cf. vii. 165), but H. never mentions it. The causal connexion is odd: (I mention them) ‘because Sataspes failed’.

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