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     * there.
     # 21; Ps 78:45; 105:31|
     * the land.
       How intolerable a plague of flies can prove, is evident from
       the fact that whole districts have been laid waste by them.
       The inhabitants have been forced to quit their cities, not
       being able to stand against the flies and gnats with which
       they were pestered.  Hence different people had deities whose
       office it was to defend them against flies.  Among these may
       be reckoned Baalzebub, the fly-god of Ekron; Hercules,
       {muscarum abactor,} Hercules the expeller of flies; and hence
       Jupiter had the titles of [apomuios, muiagros, muiochoros,]
       because he was supposed to expel flies, and especially clear
       his temples of these insects.  See Bryant.

     # 14|
     * corrupted.  or destroyed.