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γένεος. For the name Targitaus (a genuine native name) cf. Polyaen. viii. 55, Tirgitao. For the artificial genealogy cf. Tac. Germ. 2, Mannus and his three sons. The names do not appear subsequently in H.; but the triple kingship (c. 120) may have suggested both it and the similar division in 7. 2.

For the success of the youngest cf. 10. 2 (the story of the Pontic Greeks), the story of Perdiccas (viii. 137), and popular legends passim, e. g.that of Cinderella. For the ‘burning gold’ cf. the popular superstition in modern Russia of buried treasures which turn to hot coals when discovered (Reinach, A. R. M. p. 160).

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