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Their women are in common as are their children. Only with the wife of the tyrant is it not permitted to have sexual intercourse. A fine of one sheep is levied on any person who has dared to do this.

— Agatharchides

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At the time of the Etesian winds, when there are heavy rains in their country, they draw their sustenance from blood and milk which they mix together and boil briefly.

It is customary for the other Trogodytes to circumcise their genital organs, just as do the Egyptians, but the tribe the Greeks call 'Colobi' have the custom of cutting off with razors during infancy the whole portion that others circumcise.

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