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The sacrifice of Iphigenia is a familiar parallel. Ἔντομα ποιεῖν is used in vii. 191 for sacrifices to allay a storm, but nothing is there said of their being human.

There was a ‘harbour of Menelaus’ in Libya (iv. 169. 1).

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