A third possibility is that there was a wholly separate epic called the " Thesprotis "; and yet a fourth possibility is that the " Telegony " and " Thesprotis " were two separate poems that were at some stage compiled into a single " Telegony ".
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Purity of bloodline was very important to the Bedouin, and they also believed in telegony, believing if a mare was ever bred to a stallion of " impure " blood, the mare herself and all future offspring would be " contaminated " by the stallion and hence no longer " Asil ."
