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where he enjoyed the protection and patronage of the Scopadae and Aleuadae. These were two of the most powerful families in the Thessalian feudal aristocracy yet they seemed notable to later Greeks such as Theocritus only for their association with Simonides. Thessaly at that time was perceived as a cultural backwater by other Greeks. According to an account by Plutarch, the Ionian poet once dismissed the Thessalians as "too ignorant" to be

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