What is the longest Greek word ever to appear in written form? Here it is:
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Notes

Kenneth M. De Luca, Aristophanes鈥 Male and Female Revolutions: A Reading of Aristophanes鈥 Knights and Assemblywomen (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005), 123-124.

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