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They keep the customs of their fathers, adding none to them. Among other notable customs of theirs is this, that they have one song, the Linus-song,1 which is sung in Phoenicia and Cyprus and elsewhere; each nation has a name of its own for this,

1 This is the hymn for a slain youth (said to typify the departure of early summer), Thammuz, Atys, Hylas, or Linus; the Semitic refrain ai lenu, “alas for us,” becomes the Greek αἴλινος, from which comes the name Linus.

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