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τὸ οὔνομα: translate ‘this very form Eridanus betrays that the name’, &c.

δ᾽ ὦν sums up the result of H.'s ‘research’ (μελετῶν). ‘At any rate our tin comes’ from the extreme west.

κασσίτερος. Schrader, Preh. Antiq. of Aryans, p. 216, thinks this ‘is an Accadian-Assyrian word transferred by Phoenicians to the mines in the west’. Others more probably make it British, and compare the Cassi (Caesar, B. G. v. 21), Cassivellaunus, and other names. At all events, it is an imported word in Greece.

ἤλεκτρον. Amber comes especially from the south-east shores of the Baltic; cf. Tac. Germ. 45 and Plin. N. H. xxxvii. 30-53.

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