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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 6 (of 6)

Note 2025 — BOOK XXXV. AN ACCOUNT OF PAINTINGS AND COLOURS.

John Bostock translation

This word was probably a title, meaning “Keeper of the temple.” Strabo tells us that the “megabyzi,” or as he calls them, the “megalobyzi,” were eunuch priests in the Temple of Artemis, or Diana, at Ephesus.

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