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

Note 767 — Chapter VI · HUNTING AND FOWLING.

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This now we find is the food of swine. “Leaving Pyrgo (in Bœotia), we advanced along the plain to Eremo Castro; in our road we observed droves of pigs tearing up the ground for the roots of the cuckow-pint (arum maculatum) which was called by the swineherds δρακοντίο.”—Sibth. in Walp. i. 65.

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