Book 9
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And when some antelopes were brought round, Pala- medes of Elea, the collector of words, said—It is not bad meat that of the antelopes (δόρκωνες). And Myrtilus said to him—The word is only δορκύδες, not δόρκωνες. Xenophon, in the first book of his Anabasis, says, And there were in that part bustards and δορκάδες.
