Pontus, Phasis, and Medea in Lazica

This Good Works Translation begins the Book 8 Procopius dossier passages from the Greek.

The chapter belongs to the Scythian shelf because Procopius maps the eastern Euxine and Colchian world: Trapezus, Lazica, Apsarus/Apsyrtus, Medea and Jason, the golden fleece, the Phasis as a boundary of Asia and Europe, Petra, and the Apsilii. It also preserves the geographic frame for the Caucasus, Hunnic passes, and northern Pontic material that follows.

The translation is newly made from the Greek source text printed below. Dewing's public-domain English translation was used only as a control.

Translation

Wars 8.2.1-33

This Pontus, then, begins from Byzantium and Chalcedon and ends at the land of the Colchians.

As one sails into it, the land on the right is inhabited by the Bithynians, and next to them the Honoriatae and Paphlagonians, who possess, besides other places, the coastal cities Heraclea and Amastris. After them are the people called Pontici, as far as the city of Trapezus and its boundaries. In that region there are small coastal cities, among them Sinope and Amisus; near Amisus are the place called Themiscyra and the river Thermodon, where they say the army of the Amazons had its origin. Concerning the Amazons I shall write a little later.

The territory of the Trapezuntines reaches from there to the village Susurmena and the place called Rhizaeum, which is two days' journey from Trapezus for one going along the coast toward Lazica.

Now that I have mentioned Trapezus, I must not leave out a very strange thing that happens there.

The honey produced in all the places around Trapezus is bitter; there alone it departs from its established reputation.

To the right of these places rise all the mountains of Tzanica, and beyond them are the Armenians who are subject to the Romans.

From these mountains of Tzanica the river Boas descends. After passing into countless thickets and crossing a mountainous country, it flows alongside the land of Lazica and empties into the so-called Euxine sea, though it no longer keeps the name Boas.

For when it approaches the sea, it loses this name and thereafter takes another from the character it now displays.

The natives call it Acampsis for the rest of its course, evidently because it is impossible to force a way through it after it has entered the sea. It discharges its stream with such force and swiftness, causing a great disturbance of the water before it, that it runs out a very great distance into the sea and makes coasting along at that point impossible.

Those who sail in that part of the Pontus, whether toward Lazica or even away from it, cannot hold a straight course in their voyage. They are quite unable to push through the river current; they must put out a very great distance into the sea there, somewhere near the middle of the Pontus, and only in this way escape the force of the river's discharge. So much may be said concerning the river Boas.

Beyond Rhizaeum is found a territory occupied by independent peoples, who live between the Romans and the Lazi.

There is a certain village there named Athenae, not, as some suppose, because settlers from Athens established themselves there, but because a certain woman named Athenaea ruled over the land in early times; the tomb of this woman is still there in my day.

Beyond Athenae are Archabis and Apsarus, an ancient city about three days' journey from Rhizaeum.

This city was called Apsyrtus in ancient times, having been named from that man because of his misfortune.

For in that place the natives say that Apsyrtus was removed from the world by the plot of Medea and Jason, and that from this circumstance the place received its name. He died on that spot, and the place was named after him.

But a very long time has passed since these events, and countless generations of men have flourished; the mere passage of time has therefore been enough to erase from memory the sequence of events from which the name arose and to transform the name of the place into its present form.

There is also a tomb of this Apsyrtus to the east of the city.

In ancient times this was a populous city. A great circuit of wall surrounded it, and it was adorned with a theatre, a hippodrome, and all the other things by which the size of a city is usually shown.

At present nothing of these remains except the foundations of the buildings.

It is now clear that one might reasonably wonder at those who say that the Colchians are adjacent to the Trapezuntines. For on that assumption it would appear that after Jason, together with Medea, had seized the fleece, he did not flee toward Hellas and his own country, but backward toward the river Phasis and the barbarians in the remotest interior.

They say that in the time of the Roman emperor Trajan detachments of Roman soldiers were stationed there and as far as the Lazi and Saginae. But at the present time the people who live there are subject neither to the Romans nor to the king of the Lazi, except that the bishops of the Lazi appoint their priests, since they are Christians.

Wishing to live in peace and friendship with both peoples, they have made a permanent agreement to provide escort for those who from time to time travel from one country to the other. It appears that they have been doing this even down to my time.

For they escort the messengers sent from one king to the other, sailing in their own boats.

Nevertheless, they have in no way become tributary down to the present time.

To the right of these places very sheer mountains rise above, and a barren land extends indefinitely.

Beyond this dwell the so-called Persarmenians, and also the Armenians who are subject to the Romans, stretching as far as the borders of Iberia.

From the city of Apsarus to Petra and the boundary of Lazica, where the Euxine sea reaches its end, is a journey of one day.

As this sea comes to an end here, its coast takes the form of a crescent.

The distance across this crescent is about five hundred and fifty stades, while all the land behind it is Lazica and is known by that name. Behind them in the interior are Scymnia and Suania; these nations are subjects of the Lazi.

Although these peoples have magistrates of their own blood, nevertheless whenever one of the magistrates reaches the end of life, it is always customary for another to be appointed in his place by the king of the Lazi.

At the side of this land, bordering for the most part on Iberia proper, dwell the Meschi, who from ancient times have been subjects of the Iberians and have their homes in the mountains. The mountains of the Meschi are neither rough nor unproductive, but abound in all good things; for the Meschi are skilled farmers, and there are even vineyards in their country.

Yet this land is enclosed by very lofty mountains covered with forests, so that they are exceedingly difficult to pass through. These mountains extend as far as the Caucasus; beyond them toward the east lies Iberia, reaching as far as Persarmenia.

Through the mountains rising here the river Phasis issues forth, having its source in the Caucasus and its mouth at the middle of the crescent of the Pontus. For this reason some consider that it forms the boundary between the two continents: the land on the left as one goes down the stream is Asia, while that on the right is called Europe.

It happens that all the settlements of the Lazi are on the European side. On the opposite side there is no fortress, stronghold, or village of note held by the Lazi, except the city of Petra, which the Romans built there in earlier times.

It was somewhere in this part of Lazica, as the inhabitants say, that the famous fleece was placed for safekeeping, that fleece on account of which, as the poets tell the story, the Argo was built.

But in saying this, in my opinion, they are not telling the truth at all. For I think Jason would not have escaped Aeetes and departed from there with Medea and the fleece unless both the palace and the other houses of the Colchians had been separated by the river Phasis from the place where that fleece happened to lie. The poets who recorded such things also indicate this.

The Phasis, then, flowing in the way I have described, empties into the Euxine Pontus at about the very point where it comes to an end. Of the crescent, at one end, the one belonging to Asia, stood the city of Petra; on the opposite shore, in the European part, is the country of the Apsilii.

The Apsilii are subjects of the Lazi and have been Christians from ancient times, just as all the other nations I have mentioned up to this point in the narrative.

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This is the twenty-sixth unit in the Procopius Wars steppe and Black Sea translation dossier, and the first Book 8 unit.

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Source Text: Procopius, Wars 8.2.1-33

Greek source text from Procopius, Wars 8.2. Presented here for reference, study, and verification alongside the English translation above.

Wars 8.2

§ 8.2.1 Οὗτος τοίνυν ὁ Πόντος ἄρχεται μὲν ἐκ Βυζαντίου καὶ Καλχηδόνος, τελευτᾷ δὲ ἐς Κόλχων τὴν γῆν.

§ 8.2.2 καὶ αὐτὸν ἐν δεξιᾷ ἐσπλέοντι Βιθυνοί τε καὶ οἱ αὐτῶν ἐχόμενοι Ὁνωριάται καὶ Παφλαγόνες ᾤκηνται, οἳ δὴ ἄλλα τε χωρία καὶ Ἡράκλειάν τε καὶ Ἄμαστριν ἐπιθαλασσίας πόλεις ἔχουσι, καὶ μετ’ αὐτοὺς οἱ Ποντικοὶ ἐπικαλούμενοι μέχρι ἐς Τραπεζοῦντα πόλιν καὶ τὰ ταύτης ὅρια. ἐνταῦθα πολίσματά τε ἄλλα ἐπιθαλασσίδια καὶ Σινώπη τε καὶ Ἀμισὸς οἰκεῖται, Ἀμισοῦ δὲ ἄγχιστα τό τε Θεμίσκουρον καλούμενον καὶ Θερμώδων ποταμός ἐστιν, οὗ δὴ τὸ τῶν Ἀμαζόνων στρατόπεδον γεγενῆσθαί φασιν. ἀλλὰ περὶ μὲν Ἀμαζόνων γεγράψεταί μοι οὐ πολλῷ ὄπισθεν.

§ 8.2.3 Τραπεζουντίων δὲ τὰ ὅρια διήκει ἔς τε κώμην Σουσούρμενα καὶ τὸ Ῥιζαῖον καλούμενον χωρίον, ὅπερ Τραπεζουντίων διέχει δυοῖν ἡμέραιν ὁδὸν διὰ τῆς παραλίας ἐς Λαζικὴν ἰόντι.

§ 8.2.4 Τραπεζοῦντος δέ μοι ἐπιμνησθέντι οὐ παριτέον τὸ πλείστῳ παραλόγῳ τῇδε ξυμβαῖνον. τὸ γὰρ μέλι ἐν ἅπασι τοῖς περὶ Τραπεζοῦντα χωρίοις πικρὸν γίνεται, ἐνταῦθα μόνον στασιαζομένης τῆς ἀμφ’ αὐτὸ δόξης.

§ 8.2.5 τούτων δὲ δὴ τῶν χωρίων ἐν δεξιᾷ τὰ Τζανικῆς ὄρη πάντα ἀνέχει, ἐπέκεινά τε αὐτῶν Ἀρμένιοι Ῥωμαίων κατήκοοι ᾤκηνται.

§ 8.2.6 Ἐκ τούτων δὲ τῶν Τζανικῶν ὀρῶν κάτεισι ποταμὸς Βόας ὄνομα, ὃς δὴ ἔς τε λόχμας παμπληθεῖς ἰὼν καὶ χώραν λοφώδη περιερχόμενος φέρεται μὲν ἄγχιστα τῶν Λαζικῆς χωρίων, ποιεῖται δὲ τὰς ἐκβολὰς ἐς τὸν Εὔξεινον καλούμενον Πόντον, οὐ μέντοι Βόας καλούμενος.

§ 8.2.7 ἐπειδὰν γὰρ τῆς θαλάσσης ἐγγὺς ἵκηται, τὸ μὲν ὄνομα μεθίησι τοῦτο, ἑτέρας δὲ τὸ ἐνθένδε προσηγορίας μεταλαγχάνει, ἐκ τῶν οἱ ἐπιγινομένων ὄνομα κτώμενος.

§ 8.2.8 Ἄκαμψιν γὰρ αὐτὸν τὸ λοιπὸν καλοῦσιν οἱ ἐπιχώριοι, τούτου δὴ ἕνεκα, ὅτι δὴ κάμψαι αὐτὸν τῇ θαλάσσῃ ἀναμιχθέντα ἀμήχανά ἐστιν, ἐπεὶ ξὺν ῥύμῃ τοσαύτῃ καὶ ὀξύτητι τοῦ ῥοῦ τὰς ἐκβολὰς ποιεῖται, ταραχὴν τοῦ ῥοθίου πολλὴν ἐπίπροσθεν ἐργαζόμενος, ὥστε ὡς πορρωτάτω τῆς θαλάσσης ἰὼν ἄπορον ποιεῖται τὸν ταύτῃ διάπλουν· οἵ τε ναυτιλλόμενοι ἐνταῦθα τοῦ Πόντου, εἴτε Λαζικῆς εὐθὺ πλέοντες εἴτε καὶ ἐνθένδε ἀπάραντες, οὐκέτι ἑξῆς διαπλεῖν δύνανται.

§ 8.2.9 κάμψαι γὰρ τοῦ ποταμοῦ τὸν ῥοῦν οὐδαμῆ ἔχουσιν, ἀλλὰ πορρωτάτω μὲν ἀναγόμενοι τοῦ ἐκείνῃ πελάγους, ἐπὶ μέσον δέ που τὸν Πόντον ἰόντες, οὕτω δὴ ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι τῆς τοῦ ποταμοῦ ἐκβολῆς δύνανται. τὰ μὲν οὖν ἀμφὶ ποταμὸν Βόαν τοιαῦτά ἐστι.

§ 8.2.10 Μετὰ δὲ τὸ Ῥιζαῖον αὐτονόμων ἀνθρώπων ὅροι ἐκδέχονται, οἳ δὴ Ῥωμαίων τε καὶ Λαζῶν μεταξὺ ᾤκηνται. καὶ κώμη τις, Ἀθῆναι ὄνομα, ἐνταῦθα οἰκεῖται, οὐχ ὅτι Ἀθηναίων ἄποικοι, ὥσπερ τινὲς οἴονται, τῇδε ἱδρύσαντο, ἀλλὰ γυνή τις Ἀθηναία ὄνομα ἐν τοῖς ἄνω χρόνοις κυρία ἐγεγόνει τῆς χώρας, ἧσπερ ὁ τάφος ἐνταῦθα καὶ εἰς ἐμέ ἐστι.

§ 8.2.11 μετὰ δὲ Ἀθήνας Ἄρχαβίς τε οἰκεῖται καὶ Ἀψαροῦς, πόλις ἀρχαία, ἣ τοῦ Ῥιζαίου διέχει ὁδῷ ἡμερῶν τριῶν μάλιστα.

§ 8.2.12 αὕτη Ἄψυρτος τὸ παλαιὸν ὠνομάζετο, ὁμώνυμος τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ διὰ τὸ πάθος γεγενημένη. ἐνταῦθα γάρ φασιν οἱ ἐπιχώριοι ἐξ ἐπιβουλῆς Μηδείας τε καὶ Ἰάσονος τὸν Ἄψυρτον ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἀφανισθῆναι, καὶ δι’ αὐτὸ τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν τὸ χωρίον λαβεῖν· ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἐν ἐκείνῳ ἀπέθνησκε, τὸ δὲ ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ ὠνομάζετο.

§ 8.2.13 ἀλλὰ πολὺς ἄγαν μετὰ ταῦτα ἐπιρρεύσας ὁ χρόνος καὶ ἀνθρώπων ἀναρίθμοις διαδοχαῖς ἐνακμάσας αὐτὸς διαφθεῖραι μὲν τὴν τῶν πραγμάτων ἐπιβολὴν ἴσχυσεν ἐξ ὧν τὸ ὄνομα ξύγκειται τοῦτο, ἐς δὲ τὸν νῦν φαινόμενον τρόπον μεταρρυθμῆσαι τὴν προσηγορίαν τῷ τόπῳ.

§ 8.2.14 τούτου δὲ τοῦ Ἀψύρτου καὶ τάφος ἐς τῆς πόλεως τὰ πρὸς ἀνίσχοντα ἥλιόν ἐστιν. αὕτη πόλις ἦν τὸ παλαιὸν πολυάνθρωπος, καὶ τείχους μὲν αὐτὴν περιέβαλε μέγα τι χρῆμα, θεάτρῳ δὲ καὶ ἱπποδρόμῳ ἐκαλλωπίζετο καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἅπασιν οἷσπερ πόλεως μέγεθος δείκνυσθαι εἴωθε. νῦν δὲ δὴ αὐτῶν ἄλλο οὐδὲν ἀπολέλειπται, ὅτι μὴ τῆς κατασκευῆς τὰ ἐδάφη.

§ 8.2.15 Ὥστε εἰκότως θαυμάσειεν ἄν τις τῶν Κόλχους φαμένων Τραπεζουντίοις ὁμόρους εἶναι. ταύτῃ μὲν γὰρ καὶ τὸ δέρας ξὺν τῇ Μηδείᾳ συλήσας Ἰάσων οὐκ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα καὶ τὰ πάτρια ἤθη φυγὼν φαίνοιτο, ἀλλ’ ἔμπαλιν ἐπὶ Φᾶσίν τε ποταμὸν καὶ τοὺς ἐνδοτάτω βαρβάρους.

§ 8.2.16 λέγουσι μὲν οὖν ὡς κατὰ τοὺς Τραϊανοῦ τοῦ Ῥωμαίων αὐτοκράτορος χρόνους κατάλογοι Ῥωμαίων στρατιωτῶν ἐνταῦθά τε καὶ μέχρι ἐς Λαζοὺς καὶ Σαγίνας ἵδρυντο.

§ 8.2.17 τὰ δὲ νῦν ἄνθρωποι ἐνταῦθα οἰκοῦσιν οὔτε τοῦ Ῥωμαίων οὔτε τοῦ Λαζῶν βασιλέως κατήκοοι ὄντες, πλήν γε δὴ ὅτι Χριστιανοῖς οὖσιν οἱ Λαζῶν ἐπίσκοποι τοὺς ἱερεῖς καθίστανται σφίσι.

§ 8.2.18 καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔνσπονδοί τε καὶ φίλοι ἀμφοτέροις ἐθέλοντες εἶναι, τοὺς ἐξ ἑκατέρων παρὰ τοὺς ἑτέρους ἀεὶ στελλομένους παραπέμψειν διηνεκῶς ὡμολόγησαν· ὃ δὴ φαίνονται καὶ ἐς ἐμὲ δρῶντες.

§ 8.2.19 ἀκάτοις γὰρ ἰδίαις τοὺς παρὰ θατέρου βασιλέως ἐς τὸν ἕτερον στελλομένους ἀγγέλους ναυτιλλόμενοι παραπέμπουσι. φόρου μέντοι ὑποτελεῖς οὐδαμῆ γεγένηνται ἐς τόδε τοῦ χρόνου.

§ 8.2.20 τούτων δὲ τῶν χωρίων ἐν δεξιᾷ ὄρη τε λίαν ἀπότομα ἀποκρέμαται καὶ χώρα ἔρημος ἐπὶ πλεῖστον διήκει. καὶ αὐτῆς ὕπερθεν οἱ Περσαρμένιοι καλούμενοι ᾤκηνται, καὶ Ἀρμένιοι οἳ Ῥωμαίων κατήκοοί εἰσι μέχρι ἐς τοὺς Ἰβηρίας ὅρους διήκοντες.

§ 8.2.21 Ἐκ δὲ Ἀψαροῦντος πόλεως ἐς Πέτραν τε πόλιν καὶ τοὺς Λαζῶν ὅρους, οὗ δὴ τελευτᾷ ὁ Εὔξεινος Πόντος, μιᾶς ἐστὶν ἡμέρας ὁδός. ἀπολήγων δὲ ὁ Πόντος ἐνταῦθα μηνοειδῆ τίθεται τὴν ἀκτήν.

§ 8.2.22 καὶ ὁ μὲν τοῦ μηνοειδοῦς τούτου διάπλους ἐς πεντήκοντά τε καὶ πεντακοσίους μάλιστα σταδίους διήκει, τὰ δὲ αὐτοῦ ὄπισθεν ξύμπαντα Λαζική τέ ἐστι καὶ ὠνόμασται.

§ 8.2.23 μετὰ δὲ αὐτοὺς κατὰ τὴν μεσόγαιαν Σκυμνία τε καὶ Σουανία ἐστί. ταῦτα δὲ τὰ ἔθνη Λαζῶν κατήκοα τυγχάνει ὄντα. καὶ ἄρχοντας μὲν οἱ τῇδε ἄνθρωποι τῶν ὁμογενῶν τινὰς ἔχουσιν, ἐπειδὰν δὲ τῶν ἀρχόντων τινὶ ἐπιγένηται ἡ τέλειος ἡμέρα τοῦ βίου, ἕτερον αὐτοῖς ἀντικαθίστασθαι πρὸς τοῦ Λαζῶν βασιλέως ἐς ἀεὶ εἴθισται.

§ 8.2.24 ταύτης δὲ τῆς χώρας ἐκ πλαγίου μὲν παρ’ αὐτὴν μάλιστα τὴν Ἰβηρίαν Μέσχοι Ἰβήρων ἐκ παλαιοῦ κατήκοοι ᾤκηνται,

§ 8.2.25 τὰ οἰκία ἐν ὄρεσιν ἔχοντες. ὄρη δὲ τὰ Μέσχων οὐ σκληρὰ οὐδὲ καρπῶν ἄφορά ἐστιν, ἀλλ’ εὐθηνοῦσιν ἀγαθοῖς ἅπασιν, ἐπεὶ καὶ οἱ Μέσχοι γεωργοὶ δεξιοὶ καὶ ἀμπελῶνες τυγχάνουσιν ἐκεῖ ὄντες.

§ 8.2.26 ταύτῃ δὲ τῇ χώρᾳ ὄρη ἐπίκεινται ἄγαν τε ὑψηλὰ καὶ ἀμφιλαφῆ καὶ δεινῶς ἄβατα. καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ἄχρι ἐς τὰ Καυκάσια ὄρη διήκει· ὄπισθεν δὲ αὐτῶν πρὸς ἀνίσχοντα ἥλιον Ἰβηρία ἐστί, μέχρι ἐς Περσαρμενίους διήκουσα.

§ 8.2.27 Διὰ δὲ τῶν ὀρῶν ἃ ταύτῃ ἀνέχει, Φᾶσις ποταμὸς κάτεισιν, ἐκ τῶν Καυκασίων ἀρχόμενος καὶ κατὰ μέσον τὸ μηνοειδὲς τοῦ Πόντου ἐκβάλλει.

§ 8.2.28 ταύτῃ τε ἤπειρον ἑκατέραν αὐτὸν διορίζειν τινὲς οἴονται. τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἐν ἀριστερᾷ κατιόντος τοῦ ῥοῦ Ἀσία ἐστί, τὰ δὲ ἐν δεξιᾷ Εὐρώπη ὠνόμασται.

§ 8.2.29 κατὰ μὲν οὖν τὴν τῆς Εὐρώπης μοῖραν ξύμπαντα Λαζῶν τὰ οἰκία ξυμβαίνει εἶναι, ἐπὶ θάτερα δὲ οὔτε πόλισμα οὔτε ἄλλο τι ὀχύρωμα οὔτε κώμην τινὰ λόγου ἀξίαν Λαζοὶ ἔχουσι, πλήν γε δὴ ὅτι Πέτραν Ῥωμαῖοι ἐνταῦθα ἐδείμαντο πρότερον.

§ 8.2.30 κατὰ ταύτην δέ που τὴν Λαζικῆς μοῖραν ἀπέκειτο, ὥσπερ οἱ ἐπιχώριοι λέγουσι, καὶ τὸ δέρας ἐκεῖνο, οὗπερ ἕνεκα οἱ ποιηταὶ τὴν Ἀργὼ ἀποτετορνεῦσθαι μυθολογοῦσι. λέγουσι δὲ ταῦτα, ἐμὴν γνώμην, ἀληθιζόμενοι ἥκιστα.

§ 8.2.31 οὐ γὰρ ἄν, οἶμαι, λαθὼν τὸν Αἰήτην Ἰάσων ἐνθένδε ἀπηλλάσσετο ξὺν τῇ Μηδείᾳ τὸ δέρας ἔχων, εἰ μὴ τά τε βασίλεια καὶ τὰ ἄλλα τῶν Κόλχων οἰκία τοῦ χωρίου διείργετο Φάσιδι ποταμῷ, ἵνα δὴ τὸ δέρας ἐκεῖνο κεῖσθαι ξυνέβαινεν, ὃ δὴ καὶ οἱ ποιηταὶ παραδηλοῦσιν οἱ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἀναγραψάμενοι.

§ 8.2.32 ὁ μὲν οὖν Φᾶσις τῇδε φερόμενος, ᾗπέρ μοι δεδιήγηται, ἐς αὐτόν που λήγοντα ἐκβάλλει τὸν Εὔξεινον Πόντον. τοῦ δὲ μηνοειδοῦς κατὰ μὲν τὴν μίαν ἀρχήν, ἣ τῆς Ἀσίας ἐστί, Πέτρα ἡ πόλις ἐτύγχανεν οὖσα, ἐν δὲ δὴ τῇ ἀντιπέρας ἀκτῇ κατὰ τὴν τῆς Εὐρώπης μοῖραν Ἀψιλίων ἡ χώρα ἐστί·

§ 8.2.33 Λαζῶν δὲ κατήκοοί εἰσι καὶ Χριστιανοὶ γεγόνασιν ἐκ παλαιοῦ οἱ Ἀψίλιοι, ὥσπερ καὶ τἄλλα ξύμπαντα ἔθνη ὧνπερ ἐμνήσθην ἐς τόδε τοῦ λόγου.

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