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Number 31328 
Number 31328
in the version read today appeared in Athens in 1952.
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. .
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. . This 
revised an edition which had appeared in 1945.
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. The 1945 edition in turn was 
preceded in 1931 by an edition which gives Mytilene as the place of publication but 
Athens as the place of printing.
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. There are occasional differences of detail among 
these editions and I will draw attention to some of them; but the overall narrative is 
substantially the same. It differs markedly, however, from an original version under 
the title 
No 31328
(printed in Turkish numerals to represent the prisoner tag that 
Venezis was actually given) which, as we have seen, was serialised in 1924 in the 
Myrivilis’s Mytilini newspaper 
Καμπάνα 
(Bell). The 1924 version is not completely 
accessible; it has, at least where direct comparison is possible, about a quarter the 
length of the later book
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. 
The 1952 version adds a distinct new tinge by introducing chapter headings from the 
Psalms taken from the text of the Septuagint, as read in church, which are obviously 
chosen to encapsulate the ensuing narrative
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. For example the heading of the first 
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Venezis 2008. 
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Venezis 2008. 
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Venezis 1945. 
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Venezis 1931. 
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For the reader’s ease of reference I will normally cite 
Number 31328
in a recent edition (Venezis 2008) the text 
of which reproduces the 1952 edition. Unqualified references to the ‘book’ will be to any of the 1931, 1945 and 
1952 editions of which the relevant passage can be taken as identical, unless expressly indicated. In 2017 the 
publisher reset the text of the 2008 edition to conform to the current ‘monotonic’ orthography; I have not checked 
whether the only change is the one advertised, ie. the discarding of breathings and two of the accents. 
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Interestingly Avgeris 2006, 182 at the Greek defeat quotes from 
Lamentations
in the Septuagint original.

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