beauty (or were turned into cows). They were finally healed by
Melampus.]

[Footnote 1717: Fl. 56-88 A.D.: he is best known for his work on
Vergil.]

[Footnote 1718: This and the following fragment segment are meant to be
read together.--DBK.]

[Footnote 1719: This fragment as well as fragments #40A, #101, and #102
were added by Mr. Evelyn-White in an appendix to the second edition
(1919). They are here moved to the "Catalogues" proper for easier use by
the reader.--DBK.]

[Footnote 1720: For the restoration of ll. 1-16 see "Ox. Pap." pt. xi.
pp. 46-7: the supplements of ll. 17-31 are by the Translator (cp.
"Class. Quart." x. (1916), pp. 65-67).]

[Footnote 1721: The crocus was to attract Europa, as in the very similar
story of Persephone: cp. "Homeric Hymns" ii. lines 8 ff.]

[Footnote 1722: Apollodorus of Athens (fl. 144 B.C.) was a pupil of
Aristarchus. He wrote a Handbook of Mythology, from which the extant
work bearing his name is derived.]

[Footnote 1723: Priest at Praeneste. He lived c. 170-230 A.D.]

[Footnote 1724: Son of Apollonius Dyscolus, lived in Rome under Marcus
Aurelius. His chief work was on accentuation.]

[Footnote 1725: This and the next two fragment segments are meant to be
read together.--DBK.]

[Footnote 1726: Sacred to Poseidon. For the custom observed there, cp.
"Homeric Hymns" iii. 231 ff.]

[Footnote 1727: The allusion is obscure.]

[Footnote 1728: Apollonius 'the Crabbed' was a grammarian of Alexandria
under Hadrian. He wrote largely on Grammar and Syntax.]

[Footnote 1729: 275-195 (?) B.C., mathematician, astronomer, scholar,
and head of the Library of Alexandria.]

[Footnote 1730: Of Cyme. He wrote a universal history covering the
period between the Dorian Migration and 340 B.C.]

[Footnote 1731: i.e. the nomad Scythians, who are described by Herodotus
as feeding on mares' milk and living in caravans.]

[Footnote 1732: The restorations are mainly those adopted or suggested
in "Ox. Pap." pt. xi. pp. 48 ff.: for those of ll. 8-14 see "Class.
Quart." x. (1916) pp. 67-69.]

[Footnote 1733: i.e. those who seek to outwit the oracle, or to ask of
it more than they ought, will be deceived by it and be led to ruin: cp.
"Hymn to Hermes", 541 ff.]

[Footnote 1734: Zetes and Calais, sons of Boreas, who were amongst the
Argonauts, delivered Phineus from the Harpies. The Strophades ('Islands
of Turning') are here supposed to have been so called because the sons
of Boreas were t