and contains a suspicious reference to Athens.]
[Footnote 1701: A catalogue of heroines each of whom was introduced with
the words E OIE, 'Or like her'.]
[Footnote 1702: An antiquarian writer of Byzantium, c. 490-570 A.D.]
[Footnote 1703: Constantine VII. 'Born in the Porphyry Chamber', 905-959
A.D.]
[Footnote 1704: "Berlin Papyri", 7497 (left-hand fragment) and
"Oxyrhynchus Papyri", 421 (right-hand fragment). For the restoration see
"Class. Quart." vii. 217-8.]
[Footnote 1705: As the price to be given to her father for her: so in
"Iliad" xviii. 593 maidens are called 'earners of oxen'. Possibly
Glaucus, like Aias (fr. 68, ll. 55 ff.), raided the cattle of others.]
[Footnote 1706: i.e. Glaucus should father the children of others. The
curse of Aphrodite on the daughters of Tyndareus (fr. 67) may be
compared.]
[Footnote 1707: Porphyry, scholar, mathematician, philosopher and
historian, lived 233-305 (?) A.D. He was a pupil of the neo-Platonist
Plotinus.]
[Footnote 1708: Author of a geographical lexicon, produced after 400
A.D., and abridged under Justinian.]
[Footnote 1709: Archbishop of Thessalonica 1175-1192 (?) A.D., author of
commentaries on Pindar and on the "Iliad" and "Odyssey".]
[Footnote 1710: In the earliest times a loin-cloth was worn by athletes,
but was discarded after the 14th Olympiad.]
[Footnote 1711: Slight remains of five lines precede line 1 in the
original: after line 20 an unknown number of lines have been lost, and
traces of a verse preceding line 21 are here omitted. Between lines 29
and 30 are fragments of six verses which do not suggest any definite
restoration. (NOTE: Line enumeration is that according to Evelyn-White;
a slightly different line numbering system is adopted in the original
publication of this fragment.--DBK)]
[Footnote 1712: The end of Schoeneus' speech, the preparations and the
beginning of the race are lost.]
[Footnote 1713: Of the three which Aphrodite gave him to enable him to
overcome Atalanta.]
[Footnote 1714: The geographer; fl. c.24 B.C.]
[Footnote 1715: Of Miletus, flourished about 520 B.C. His work, a
mixture of history and geography, was used by Herodotus.]
[Footnote 1716: The Hesiodic story of the daughters of Proetus can be
reconstructed from these sources. They were sought in marriage by all
the Greeks (Pauhellenes), but having offended Dionysus (or, according to
Servius, Juno), were afflicted with a disease which destroyed their
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