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of Neoptolemus" (????????u???? ?????) refers to a form of retribution in which a person suffers the same wrong that they once inflicted on another. The expression derives from the story of Neoptolemus, who killed Priam at an altar and later met his own death at an altar.

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In his Chronography the chronicler Malalas described Neoptolemus as "of good stature, good chest, thin, white, good nose, ruddy hair, wooly hair, light-eyed, big-eyed, blond eyebrows, blond beginnings of a beard,

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