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Question 56. Whence is that place in the island Samos
called Panaema (Πάναιμα)?
Solution. Was it because the Amazons, flying before
Bacchus from the coasts of Ephesus, fell upon Samos, and
thereupon Bacchus rigging up his ships wafted over, and
joining battle slew abundance of them about that place,
which, by reason of the plenty of blood spilled there, the
beholders by way of admiration called Panaema? Some
say that this slaughter was about Phloeum, and show their
bones there; but others say also that Phloeum was rent
off from Samos by the dreadful and hideous cry that was
uttered at their death.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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