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Ἰβυκανητῶν
buglers
… iota 79, arises from the textual corruption of bukanhtw=n in
Polybius
(see next note) into i)bukanhtw=n. For bugles see beta 591. [2]
Polybius
2.29.6 (web address 1), more fully at iota 79.
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Κεραμωτόν
tiled
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Polybius
28.11.3 [NB: not in the Loeb edition], on -- supposedly -- the first-ever use of the Roman testudo manoeuvre; cf. Livy 44.9.3-9 for a fuller version, including the alleged origins in the …
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Χαλκίοικος
Bronze-House, of the Bronze House; Chalkioikos
… Euripides, Helen 228 & 245; Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1299; Lycurgus 1.128,
Polybius
4.22.8 and 4.35.2. Pausanias 3.17.1-3 gives reasons for accepting the first of the three etymologies proffered here; he saw it himself, and reports …
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