across Okeanos (Oceanus) to reach Geryon in Erytheia]; but the first to give this story is the author of the Titanomakhia. 1 (trans. Trikephalos : . Heracles was commanded by Eurystheus to fetch those oxen of Geryones. Bibliography Fowler, Don. Article Index. pp. 0000040355 00000 n Carson's work explores the translation of the Geryoneis, a lost work about the monster Geryon and his famed cattle. W. Baumann and W. Pratt. [5], Stesichorus also exercised an important influence on the representation of myth in 6th century art,[6] and on the development of Athenian dramatic poetry.[7]. Stesichorus (Greek , Stsikhoros, c. 630 555 BC) was the first great lyric poet of the West. Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S86 (from Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius) : "Stesikhoros in his Geryoneis calls an island in the Atlantic sea Sarpedonian." Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S87 (from Scholiast on Hesiod's Theogony) : "Geryon is son of Kallirrhoe (Callirhoe), daughter of Okeanos (Oceanus), and Khrysaor (Chrysaor). The apparatus and commentary are very full. "Starting thence, when that he [Herakles] had crossed Okeanos (Oceanus) in a golden bowl [belonging to the sun-god Helios], he drave the straight-horned kine from the uttermost parts of the earth, slew the evil herdsmen [Eurytion] and their triple-bodied master [Geryon], who wielded three spears in his (right) hands; in his left, extending three shields, and shaking his three crests, he advanced like unto Ares in his might. He was called Stesichorus because he was the first to establish (stesai) a chorus of singers to the cithara; his name was originally Tisias. Stesichorus and the Epic Tradition. PhD diss., University of British Columbia. [16] The Byzantine grammarian Tzetzes also listed him as a contemporary of the tyrant and yet made him a contemporary of the philosopher Pythagoras as well. "[3] Recent discoveries, recorded on Egyptian papyrus (notably and controversially, the Lille Stesichorus),[4] have led to some improvements in our understanding of his work, confirming his role as a link between Homer's epic narrative and the lyric narrative of poets like Pindar. . For Geryones, being three-headed, gave Herakles one hell of a struggle. 0000002225 00000 n Homer provides a good start. Easterling, P. E. About the author (2021) EWEN BOWIE is the Emeritus E. P. Warren Praelector and Fellow in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Emeritus Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford. It is possible that these are the works of another Stesichorus belonging to the fourth century, mentioned in the Marmor Parium. Mr Barrett gave me a copy of his lecture, which is not yet published, and with his usual generosity has allowed me to make use of it. Schol.A.Pind.10.19, cited by David Campbell. Stesichorus. 100 ff (trans. 19. 1987. %PDF-1.3 % Some of the most important of these results are not mine but Mr Barrett's, and I have been careful to acknowledge my debt to him in detail throughout. %%EOF 0000023416 00000 n Leiden - Boston; Davies, M. and Finglass, P. J. 13 : He was a lyric poet. Scholfield) (Greek natural history C2nd A.D.) : Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 5. His poems are in the Doric dialect and in 26 books. 9 : Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. The ancients associated the lyrical qualities of Stesichorus with the voice of the nightingale, as in this quote from the Palatine Anthology: "at his birth, when he had just reached the light of day, a nightingale, travelling through the air from somewhere or other, perched unnoticed on his lips and struck up her clear song. 17. 2000. 0000020677 00000 n On the other hand, Stesichorus said that Iphigenia was the daughter of Theseus and Helen, which obviously implies that Helen was of . II: 34-5. 13 Homeric Iliad Samuel Butler's translation, revised by Timothy Power, Gregory Nagy, Soo-Young Kim, and Kelly McCray. "He [Hephaestion] recounts that Hera who fought on the side of Geryon was wounded on her right by Herakles. 2506 e 2619)., Lerza, P. 1981. "Herakles, it is told, after he had taken the kine of Geryones from Erytheia, was wandering through the country of the Keltoi (Celts). "The tradition is that this [Nora] was the first city in the island [of Sardinia], and they say that Norax [who founded it] was a son of Erytheia, the daughter of Geryones, with Hermes for a father. This chapter considers Anne Carson's work on Greek lyric poets Sappho and Stesichorus, . Texts retrieved July 2021. It remains unclear whether he models his poem on Arctinus. Conybeare) (Greek biography C1st to C2nd A.D.) : Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Bk2 (trans. 0000004927 00000 n The Greek text is conservative and thoroughly documented in apparatus and commentary. Minghao laughs. ", Eumelus of Corinth or Arctinus of Miletus, Titanomachia Fragment 7 (from Athenaeus 11. The result is a useful contribution to the growing literature on Stesichorus; the newly edited and re-ordered text is the book's major advance. . 2014, Stesichorus. Aphrodite in Homer and the Homeric Hymns: Poetic Etymology. In Nifadopoulos 2003:119129. ", Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 36. 2 : Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. There is inconsistency between the information in text, apparatus and commentary on fragment 6, line 1: the printed text is simply a dotted mu, the apparatus conservative, but the commentary speculative (pages 77 and 115). "[A metaphor employed by Plato :] If a man were gifted by nature with the frame of a Geryon or a Briareus, with his hundred hands, he ought to be able to throw a hundred darts. Meaning four-headed . Gryonis. Tryphonopoulos, Demetres P.The Celestial Tradition. Famous is the, This abnormal child-birth of bloody males cannot be uncoupled from the ambiguous. Wroth with the daughters for the fathers sake, "These [the breed of bulls called Syrian] are they which report said Herakles, the mighty son of Zeus, when fulfilling his labours, drove of old from Erytheia, what time he fought with Geryoneus beside Okeanos (Oceanus) and slew him amid the crags; since he was doomed to fulfil yet another labour, not for Hera nor at the behest of Eurystheus, but for his comrade Arkhippos (Archippus), lord of holy Pella. View all Google Scholar citations The Trojans haul onto the acropolis the horse that was heavy inside, (357). a reconstruction of Stesichorus 'claimed motivation for changing his. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. the triple heads of the herdsman of Hiberus [Geryon]. Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S11 (from Papyri) : Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S12 (from Papyri) : Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S13 (from Papyri) : Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S14 (from Papyri) : Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S15 (from Papyri) : Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S17 (from Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae) : Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S86 (from Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius) : Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S87 (from Scholiast on Hesiod's Theogony) : Ibycus, Fragment 282A (trans. Tsitsibakou-Vasalos, E. 1985. The Making of Homer in the Sixth Century B.C. ", Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. Menoetes, who was there tending the cattle of Haides, reported these events to Geryon, who overtook Herakles by the Athemos (Athemus) river as he was leading away the cattle. Total loading time: 0 Online purchasing will be unavailable between 18:00 BST and 19:00 BST on Tuesday 20th September due to essential maintenance work. Like gems, rich rows of purple violet. "The mountain in which the river Baetis is said to rise [in southern Iberia (Spain)] is called Silver Mountain on account of the silver-mines that are in it . And many wreath was there, with roses bound, User Account. Denys Page 1973:138-154 gives the fragmentary Greek and pieces together a translation by overlaying the fragments with the account in Bibliotheke. . The Cantos Project by Roxana Predais licensed under a. Translation, and Commentary M. Davies and P. J. Finglass Frontmatter More information. 21. The fragments of the "Geryoneis" on Papyrus Oxyrhynchus XXXII 2617. Stesichorus was a great asset, indeed! For whereas Tyndarus, 10. And finding there the sons of Khrysaor (Chrysaor) encamped at some distance from one another with three great armies, he challenged each of the leaders to single combat and slew them all, and then after subduing Iberia he drove off the celebrated herds of cattle. "The tenth labour assigned to Herakles was to fetch the cattle of Geryon from Erytheia (Erythea). ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. only a poem's precedents but also its receptionis in the case of the Geryoneis crucial to our understanding of the Stesichorus' mastery of allusion and creativity as a poet in his own right. ", Ovid, Metamorphoses 9. "Theolytos (Theolytus) says that he [Herakles] sailed across the sea in a cauldron [i.e. "Kallirhoe (Callirhoe), daughter of Okeanos (Oceanus) lying in the embraces of powerful-minded Khrysaor (Chrysaor) through Aphrodite the golden bore him a son, most powerful of all men mortal, Geryones, whom Herakles in his great strength killed over his dragfoot cattle in water-washed Erytheia [the Sunset Isle]. . May this not be the wish of the blessed gods . However, Stesichorus did more than recast the form of epic poetry works such as the Palinode were also a recasting of epic material: in that version of the Trojan War, the combatants fought over a phantom Helen while the real Helen either stayed home or went to Egypt (see a summary below). Some say that he came from Himera in Sicily, but that was due to him moving from Metauros to Himera later in life. A scholiast writing in a margin on Hesiod's Theogony noted that Stesichorus gave the monster wings, six hands and six feet, whereas Hesiod himself had only described it as 'three-headed'. Transcription of the original and English translation by Peter Liebregts. "Geryon is son of Kallirrhoe (Callirhoe), daughter of Okeanos (Oceanus), and Khrysaor (Chrysaor). 2803 (Stesichoros)., . Stesichorus. referring to Stesichoro's Geryoneis . Deipnosophistae (Scholars at Dinner) REFERENCES. 0000003331 00000 n [email protected] Preview Stesichorus PMGF S21.1-3 (Geryoneis): A Textual Proposal. Knox, Bernard M. W. Geryones lived west of the Pontos (Pontus), settled in the island called by the Greeks Erytheia, on the shore of Okeanos (Oceanus) near Gadeira, outside the pillars of Herakles. Weir Smyth) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) 13 : By contrast, the Greeks, with whom the wooden horse is filled, wait to be reborn and start their massacre. : Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. Cantos XXIII and the Power of Love. Ezra Pound and Neoplatonism. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Showerman) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Overview. . 11 (trans. . 0000023380 00000 n ", Strabo, Geography 3. "The ancient writers seem to call the Baetis [a river in southern Spain, now called Guadalquivir] Tartessos, and Gadeira [i.e. ", Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 5. Your email address will not be published. : Lidentification de Lagaria et ses problmes., Lehnus, L. 1972. Yet he introduces some new points. And when I criticized the account and pointed out to them that Geryon is at Gadeira, where there is, not his tomb, but a tree showing different shapes, the guides of the Lydians related the true story, that the corpse is that of Hyllos (Hyllus), a son of Gaia (Gaea, Earth), from whom the river is named. There is also discussion interesting for its own sake, as for example on the use of prepositional dialectical forms (page 132). 8. "On the side facing Hispania [i.e. 0 BMCR provides the opportunity to comment on reviews in order to enhance scholarly communication. 1986. The Homeric qualities of Stesichorus' poetry are demonstrated in a fragment of his poem Geryoneis describing the death of the monster Geryon. Translation into Latin by Johannes Schweighuser. 0000009631 00000 n [72] The enduring freshness of his art, in spite of its epic traditions, is borne out by Ammianus Marcellinus in an anecdote about Socrates: happening to overhear, on the eve of his own execution, the rendition of a song of Stesichorus, the old philosopher asked to be taught it: "So that I may know something more when I depart from life. 18. The grass upon which they graze is dry, but it makes them very fat; and it is from this fact, it is inferred, that the myth about the cattle of Geryon has been fabricated. The result is a useful contribution to the growing literature on Stesichorus; the newly edited and 21-44), discute a . [15] Aristotle quoted a speech the poet is supposed to have made to the people of Himera warning them against the tyrannical ambitions of Phalaris. "useRatesEcommerce": false [66] yet Stesichorus adapted Homeric motifs to create a humanized portrait of the monster,[67] whose death in battle mirrors the death of Gorgythion in Homer's Iliad, translated here by Richmond Lattimore: Homer here transforms Gorgythion's death in battle into a thing of beautythe poppy has not wilted or died. Additional details concerning Geryon follow Page's account. Miller) (Roman tragedy C1st A.D.) : Conybeare) (Greek biography C1st to C2nd A.D.) : 18. The implications of, The laws of nature are inverted and the boundaries between life and death are blurred ever since Odysseus filled (, The Cyclops scene forms the inverted analogy of the wooden horse. ", Oppian, Cynegetica 2. ). [1.2] KHRYSAOR (Ibycus Frag 282A, Diodorus Siculus 4.17.1). Curtis is cautious about attributing fragments to the poem, but bold in his reconstruction. Embarked again upon his golden chalice, This chapter considers Anne Carson's work on Greek lyric poets Sappho and Stesichorus, whose songs were roughly contemporaneous, and whose reception histories are both characterized by profound dam. . 0000048844 00000 n . This monograph focuses solely on the Stesichoros's Geryoneis. Before him slain lay that most murderous hound Orthros (Orthrus), in furious might like Kerberos (Cerberus) his brother-hound: a herdman lay thereby, Eurytion, all bedabbled with his blood. The meaning of the name is, as in the case of the masculine equivalent Antigonus, "worthy of one's parents" or "in place of one's . Godley) (Greek historian C5th B.C.) ", Aeschylus, Agamemnon 869 ff (trans. 188. In a context studded with sacrificial terms, the twin eagles-Atreidae perform a corrupt sacrifice, be it of the hare and her fetuses before their birth ( ), and/or of a human child (i.e. 3 : Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. Boardman, John 5. [61], The following description of the birthplace of the monster Geryon, preserved as a quote by the geographer Strabo,[62] is characteristic of the "descriptive fulness" of his style:[63]. Sleeps the dim Night in solitary valleys, Consequently, in order that their possessions should consist in that against which no one would have designs, they have made wealth in gold and silver alien from themselves. 237-38. . The Greek is remarkably clean throughout (although corrections need to made on page 47, line 9 (bis,, and on page 161, 17 lines from bottom), The modern language sections are not so carefully proofed.2 Curtis apparently uses subscripts when quoting a text edited with subscripts but uses adscripts when himself editing or where quoting a text with adscripts. : Aeschylus, Fragment 37 Heracleidae (from Scholiast on Aristeides) : Plato, Gorgias 484b (trans. VAIN it is for those to weep ", Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. Homeric Influence in Stesichorus Nostoi.. His gory heads were cast in dust, dashed down by that resistless club. 0000009155 00000 n It may be connected with the ancient Greek word g (earth) or gry (singing). Geryoneis in Athenaeus' . Be notified can be gained by both visual now that i have your attention nancy motes e.g Data Referat ber zwei russische Aufstze.. [37] His poetry included a description of the river Himera[38] as well as praise for the town named after it,[39] and his poem Geryoneis included a description of Pallantium in Arcadia. 3 vols. Robbins, E. 1997. The poet Stesichorus wrote a song of Geryon . 2 : Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. "Or if he had died as often as reports claimed, then truly he might have had three bodies, a second Geryon, and have boasted of having taken on him a triple cloak of earth, one death for each different shape. 7 - 8 (trans. 35. His Cassandra, in a maenadic ecstasy, speaks of the birth pangs of Hecubas dreams, and of the oncoming, Tryphiodorus echoes the Odyssean liquid metaphor, , when he describes how the kings flowed from the carved belly, , I will conclude my study of the Stesichorean. to C1st A.D.) : Feature Flags: { I can't find the page you're looking for", "p.114-5. [21], The Suda's claim that Hesiod was the father of Stesichorus can be dismissed as "fantasy"[22] yet it is also mentioned by Tzetzes[23] and the Hesiodic scholiast Proclus[24] (one of them however named the mother of Stesichorus via Hesiod as Ctimene and the other as Clymene). Stesichorus' Geryoneis and its Folk-tale Origins* - Volume 38 Issue 2. . "Many varieties of monsters can be found stabled here at the doors [of Hades] . West, M. L. 1969. 17. "And after Herakles had visited a large part of Libya he arrived at the ocean near Gadeira, where he set up pillars on each of the two continents. With Mans life ends all the story : Aeschylus, Agamemnon 869 ff (trans. ", Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4. Stesichorus, (born 632/629 bc, Mataurus, Bruttium, Magna Graecia [now in southern Italy]died 556/553 bc, Catania [or Himera], Sicily), Greek poet known for his distinctive choral lyric verse on epic themes. [35] His poetry reveals both Doric and Ionian influences and this is consistent with the Suda'a claim that his birthplace was either Metauria or Himera, both of which were founded by colonists of mixed Ionian/Doric descent. : Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. And infant sons, in this sequestered palace; 2803 (Stes. Whether or not it was a choral technique, the triadic structure of Stesichorean lyrics allowed for novel arrangements of dactylic meter the dominant meter in his poems and also the defining meter of Homeric epic thus allowing for Homeric phrasing to be adapted to new settings. Related Papers. "Herakles, driving the cattle of Geryones, came to this land [Skythia (Scythia)], which was then desolate, but is now inhabited by the Skythians. And many a coronal, wherein were set, Adrados, F. R. 1978. "Trikephalos (three-headed) : For Geryones, being three-headed, gave Herakles a hell of a struggle.". 11 (trans. Download. Xvi + 201, Pls. Tradition und Innovation: zu Stesichorus Umgang mit dem Mythos., Page, D. 1973. He is best known for telling epic stories in lyric metres but he is also famous for some ancient traditions about his life, such as his opposition to the tyrant Phalaris, and the blindness he is. "[The labours of Heracles :] Among his herds in the distant land of Hesperia [Spain] the three-shaped shepherd [Geryon] of the Tartesian shore was killed and his cattle driven as spoil from the farthest west; Cithaeron has fed the herd once to Oceanus known. Campbell, Vol. Athenaeus 4.172de, cited by David Campbell, "Ooops! [41] Traditional accounts indicate that he was politically active in Magna Graeca. , . XXXII 2617. It is true that ancient poets were interested in the divisions of time, of the night, in particular (. ", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S86 (from Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius) : ((lacuna)) white . [36] On the other hand, a Doric/Ionian flavour was fashionable among later poets it is found in the 'choral' lyrics of the Ionian poets Simonides and Bacchylides and it might have been fashionable even in Stesichorus's own day. Being the Remains of all the Greek Lyric Poets from Eumelus to Timotheus Excepting Pindar. It uses affect theory to craft methods of translating sound The Suda in yet another entry refers to the fact, now verified by Papyrus fragments, that Stesichorus composed verses in units of three stanzas (strophe, antistrophe and epode), a format later followed by poets such as Bacchylides and Pindar. The result is that the translation greatly aids a scholar trying to make sense of the Greek (probably Curtis primary audience), but would not be a good read for a Greekless student trying to figure out what the poem was like. In date he was later than the lyric poet Alcman, since he was born in the 37th Olympiad (632/28 BC). ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. : "Eurystheus then enjoined him [Herakles] as a tenth Labour the bringing back of the cattle of Geryones, which pastured in the parts of Iberia [Spain] which slope towards the ocean. The wooden horse recurs in three badly mutilated Stesichorean fragments. This text is from a fragmentary scrap of papyrus. In both their actions and their speeches he gives due dignity to his characters, and if only he had shown restraint he could possibly have been regarded as a close rival of Homer; but he is redundant and diffuse, a fault to be sure but explained by the abundance of what he had to say. See also: Stesichorus. 249 ff (trans. and ", Hesiod, Theogony 287 ff. On the frontiers of Libya and Europe he erected two pillars (Calpe and Abyla) on the two sides of the straits of Gibraltar, which were hence called the pillars of Heracles. The original poem, Geryoneis, followed the life of the monster Geryon leading up to his death at the hands of . . As Herakles proceeded through Europe to these cattle, he killed many wild animals, paid a visit to Libya, and went on to Tartessos (Tartessus) where he set up two steles opposite each other at the borders of Europe and Libya, as commemorative markers of his trip. That giver of sweet gifts, the Queen of Love, 99-105. Its contribution to the interpretation of the Geryones is very great, and to the understanding of Stesichorus more generally is unrivalled. The Sun, Hyperions child, went down into the cupof gold, so that he might cross over the oceanand reach the depths of holy, dark, nightand his mother and wedded wifeand dear children; while he,Zeus son [=Heracles], wentinto the grove,shady with its laurels. "But what really caused me surprise is this. ", Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 6. Spain] at a distance of about 100 yards is another island one mile long and one mile broad, on which the town of Gadis was previously situated; Ephorus and Philistus call this island Erythea . Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : Pausanias, Description of Greece 3. Stesichorus. We discern two opposing views at best, although we cannot specify the literary sources on which our poet draws. "[Heracles] told of the deeds . This, it is supposed, is why Stesichorus sould say of Geryon's herdman [Eurytion] that he was born almost opposite famous Erytheia . Stesichorus (Ancient Greek: , circa 640 - 555 BC) was the first great poet of the Greek West.He is best known for telling epic stories in lyric metres [1] but he is also famous for some ancient traditions about his life, such as his opposition to the tyrant Phalaris, and the blindness he is said to have incurred and cured by composing verses first insulting and then . - (Il. Finglass (Cambridge 2014) . Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) [ (S103.2), and describes how the Danaans leapt eagerly from the [wooden] horse (S105.9): ( ?) "Khrysaor (Chrysaor), married to Kallirhoe (Callirhoe), daughter of glorious Okeanos (Oceanus), was father to the triple-headed Geryon, but Geryon was killed by the great strength of Herakles at sea-circled Erytheis (Erythea) beside his own shambling cattle on that day when Herakles drove those broad-faced cattle toward holy Tiryns, when he crossed the stream of Okeanos and had killed Orthos and the oxherd Eurytion out in the gloomy meadow beyond fabulous Okeanos. 120 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st A.D.) : In the article "Sympathizing with the Monster: Making Sense of Colonization in Stesichorus' Geryoneis" (2009), classicist Christina Franzen discusses the comparison of slain Geryon to a dying poppy, which we see here in Fragment 14. . He acts a prominent part in the stories of Heracles. Liebregts, Peter. Fragment fromGeryoneis. A History of Ancient Greek Literature", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stesichorus&oldid=1117710953, This page was last edited on 23 October 2022, at 05:10. ", Strabo, Geography 3. ", Suidas s.v. . The poet Stesichorus wrote a song of Geryon ( - Geryones) . 2003. 35. Ewen Bowie about Helen to one involving an eidolon, andfinally notes the implications of such a claim by a poet for the use of the singing 'I'by a chorus. As on his journey Heracles was annoyed by the heat of the sun, he shot at Helios, who so much admired his boldness, that he presented him with a golden cup or boat, in which he sailed across the ocean to Erytheia. . Stesikhoros says he has six hands and six feet and is winged. "Stesichorus", by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870. Nachtrge zu P. Oxy. A nineteenth century translation imaginatively fills in the gaps while communicating something of the richness of the language: See The Queen's Speech in the Lille fragment for more on Stesichorus's style. ", Parthenius, Love Romances 30 (trans. Hammond, N. G. L. The Geryoneis is a fragmentary poem, written in Ancient Greek by the lyric poet Stesichorus. [1.1] KHRYSAOR & KALLIRHOE (Hesiod Theogony 287, Stesichorus Geryoneis Frag, Apollodorus 2.106, Hyginus Pref) ", Plato, Gorgias 484b (trans. There seem to be intrusive apostrophes in the first word of line 3 of fragment 1 (page 73) and in the third word of line 10, column 2, of fragment 12 (page 84). , . <> . Godley) (Greek historian C5th B.C.) Demodocus sings how the sons of the Achaeans stormed the city, jumping from the horse and leaving their cavernous ambush (, The Greeks lie in ambush within a hollow wooden artifact significantly called (507) or (515). 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