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the disciples of Erasistratus under the conduct of Hicesius, At present there is nothing of this kind. 21
The names of some Phrygian tribes, as the Berecyntes
[and Cerbesii], are mentioned, which no longer exist. And
Aleman says,
He played the Cerbesian, a Phrygian air.
They speak also of a Cerbesian pit which sends forth destructive exhalations; this however exists, but the people have no
longer the name of Cerbesii. Aeschylus in his Niobe note confounds them; Niobe says that she shall remember Tantalus,
and his story;
those who have an altar of Jupiter, their paternal god, on the Idaean
hill,
and again;
Sipylus in the Idaean land,
—and Tantalus says,
I sow the furrows of the Berecynthian fields, extending twelve days'
journey, where the seat of Adrasteia and Ida resound with the lowing of
herds and the bleating of sheep; all the plain re-echoes with their cries.
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Strabo, Geography (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Str.].