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

Note 373 — Chapter I · CONDITION OF THE POOR.

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Diog. Laert. vi. 2. § 64. Ῥυπαρὸς, alone, signifies as the French translator has rendered it, “mal-propres,” t. i. p. 358. But ῥυπαρὸς ἁρτὸς, means du pain bis, as Menage long ago observed, ad loc. ii. 146. b. c. Diogenes, as the reader will perceive, meant to pun upon the word ῥυπαρὸς.

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