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The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 1 (of 3)

Note 153 — Chapter II · CHARACTER OF THE GREEKS.

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This wind, wherever it prevails, increases the appetite; and the Greeks were a hearty-eating people.—Aristot. Probl. xxvi. 45. The wind Ornithias was often so cold as to strike birds dead on the wing. Schol. Aristoph. Ach. 842.

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