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istories' is equivalent to "The Cypria".] [Footnote 3004: Cp. Allen "C.R." xxvii. 190.] [Footnote 3005: These two lines possibly belong to the account of the feast given by Agamemnon at Lemnos.] [Footnote 3006: sc. the Asiatic Thebes at the foot of Mt. Placius.] [Footnote 3101: sc. after cremation.] [Footnote 3102: This fragment comes from a version of the "Contest of Homer and Hesiod" widely different from that now extant. The words 'as Lesches gives them (says)' seem to indicate that the verse and a half assigned to Homer came from the "Little Iliad". It is possible they may have introduced some unusually striking incident, such as the actual Fall of Troy.] [Footnote 3103: i.e. in the paintings by Polygnotus at Delphi.] [Footnote 3104: i.e. the dead bodies in the picture.] [Footnote 3105: According to this version Aeneas was taken to Pharsalia. Better known are the Homeric account (according to which Aeneas founded a new dynasty at Troy), and the legends which make him seek a new home in Italy.] [Footnote 3201: sc. knowledge of both surgery and of drugs.] [Footnote 3301: Clement attributes this line to Augias: probably Agias is intended.] [Footnote 3302: Identical with the "Returns", in which the Sons of Atreus occupy the most prominent parts.] [Footnote 3401: This Artemisia, who distinguished herself at the battle of Salamis (Herodotus, vii. 99) is here confused with the later Artemisia, the wife of Mausolus, who died 350 B.C.] [Footnote 3402: i.e. the fox knows many ways to baffle its foes, while the hedge-hog knows one only which is far more effectual.] [Footnote 3403: Attributed to Homer by Zenobius, and by Bergk to the "Margites".] [Footnote 3501: i.e. 'monkey-men'.] [Footnote 3601: Lines 42-52 are intrusive; the list of vegetables which the Mouse cannot eat must follow immediately after the various dishes of which he does eat.] [Footnote 3602: lit. 'those unable to swim'.] [Footnote 3603: This may be a parody of Orion's threat in Hesiod, "Astronomy", frag. 4.] [Footnote 3701: sc. the riddle of the fisher-boys which comes at the end of this work.] [Footnote 3702: The verses of Hesiod are called doubtful in meaning because they are, if taken alone, either incomplete or absurd.] [Footnote 3703: "Works and Days", ll. 383-392.] [Footnote 3704: "Iliad" xiii, ll. 126-133, 339-344.] [Footnote 3705: The accepted text of the "Iliad" contains 15,693 verses; that of the "
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