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Probably the Zopyrus of iii. 153 seqq., whose grandson deserted to Athens (iii. 160) and may well have told H. this and other stories (cf. J. H. S. xxvii. 37 seq.). H. probably had heard this story also in Samos (ยง 7).

For the use of criminals for dangerous voyages cf. the English usage from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, e. g. Doyle, English in America, i. 61, 71.

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