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κρηπῖδα. Abydenus (u. s.) speaks of ‘great sluice-gates’ (ἐχετογνώμονες).

H.'s account bears all the marks of an eyewitness; but possessed as he is by the Median terror, he pays no regard to the pacific use of the reservoir; hence he contradicts himself; he thinks of it as a marsh (v.s. and cf. 191. 3), but also as navigable.

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