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It is one of the small plants that grow close to the ground, whose shoots the grazing animals attack, cutting off the tops and injuring them and so spoiling the growth. But when these plants grow up and gain some size and escape injury from the flocks which graze upon them, then they are called sheep-escapers. The evidence for this is Aeschylus.Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag. p. 123, Aeschylus, Frag. 447.
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Who are the Men repulsed by slings?
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Men from Eretria used to inhabit the island of Corcyra. But Charicrates sailed thither from Corinth with an army and defeated them in war; so the Eretrians embarked in their ships and sailed back home. Their fellow-citizens, however, having learned of the matter before their arrival, barred their return to the country and prevented them from disembarking by showering upon them missiles from slings. Since the exiles were unable either to persuade or to overcome their fellow-citizens, who were numerous and inexorable, they sailed to Thrace and occupied a territory in which, according to tradition, Methon, the ancestor of Orpheus, had formerly lived. So the Eretrians named their city Methonê, but they were also named by their neighbours the Men repulsed by slings.
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Who was Charilla among the Delphians?
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The Delphians celebrate three festivals one after the other which occur every eight Cf.Moralia, 421 c. years, the first of which they call Septerion, the second Heroïs, and the third Charilla.
