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ὑψηλοτάτη. H. here produces the right impression, though his facts are not strictly accurate; Cyrene is the highest part (some 1,800 feet) of the coast region of North-east Africa, which he has in his mind; but the ranges behind, of which he did not know (e. g. Mount Harutch), rise 1,000 feet higher.

Pacho, pp. 235-6, says, ‘La graduation de ces terrasses boisées et leur condition variée . . . mettent la merveilleuse tradition d'Hérodote hors de tout soupçon d'exagération’. Hamilton (p. 124) confirms the threefold vintage from his own experience (cf. also Barth. W. 403). H.'s description becomes poetical in its enthusiasm.

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