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δίποδες. Clearly the ‘jerboa’, the fore-feet of which are very short.

Rawlinson suggests that the ζέγερις = the ‘guntsha’, a rat-like animal with a bushy tail. The ἐχινεύς seems to be a ‘stiff-haired mouse’.

βουνοί, ‘hills’ (199. 1), is a non-Attic word, found in Sicily as well as at Cyrene, and in later Greek, e. g. in Polyb. (βουνώδης).

γαλαῖ. The ‘weasels’ of Tartessus were ferrets used in rabbit hunting (Strabo 144).

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