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The History of Antiquity, Vol. 1 (of 6)

Note 804 — Chapter XII

Evelyn Abbott translation

Hippoc. "De aere," c. 89, 91. If the name Amazon were Greek, it could only have been invented in a contrast to πολύμαζος, "with many breasts," the epithet of the Ephesian Artemis, as the goddess of birth, to denote the maidens devoted to chastity.

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