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Ante-Nicene Fathers — American Roberts / Donaldson / Coxe edition, Volume II · The Stromata, or Miscellanies — unspecified — eng
And the people accompanied him, saying, “Bedu, Zaps, Chthon, Plectron, Sphinx, Cnaxzbi, Chthyptes, Phlegmos, Drops.” Callimachus relates the story in iambics. Cnaxzbi is, by derivation, the plague, from its gnawing (κναίειν) and destroying (διαφθείρειν), and θ…
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