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See also:AUTOCHTHONES (Gr. drabs, and xO(:ov, See also:earth, i.e. See also:people sprung from earth itself; See also:Lat. terrigenae; see also under See also:ABORIGINES)
, the See also:original inhabitants of a See also:country as opposed to settlers, and those of their descendants who kept themselves See also:free from an admixture of See also:foreign peoples
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The practice in See also:ancient See also:Greece of describing legendary heroes and men of ancient lineage as " earthborn " greatly strengthened the See also:doctrine of autochthony; for instance, the Athenians wore See also:golden grasshoppers in their See also:hair in token that they were See also:born from the See also:soil and had always lived in See also:Attica (See also:Thucydides i
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6; See also:Plato, Menexenus, 245)
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In See also:Thebes, the See also:race of Sparti were believed to have sprung from a See also: |
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