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[4] They eat bread, making loaves which they call “cyllestis,”1 of coarse grain. For wine, they use a drink made from barley, for they have no vines in their country. They eat fish either raw and sun-dried, or preserved with brine.

1 Loaves twisted to a point, apparently.

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