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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