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φυλασσομένων: there were sentinels on the principal roads; cf. 52; vii. 239. 3; Nehemiah ii. 7. Gellius, xvii. 9, adds the professed motive of the shaving, ‘servo suo diu oculos aegros habenti capillum ex capite omni tamquam medendi gratia deradit,’ &c.; and Polyaenus, Strat. i. 24, gives the message, Ἱστιαῖος Ἀρισταγόρᾳ: Ἰωνίαν ἀπόστησον: but these details deserve no credit.

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