Eurip. Phœnissae. Prolog., and Argument to the same from the Cod. Guelpherbyt. in Matthiae.

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πρῶτος ᾿εν ᾿ανθρώποις τὴν ἀῤῥενοφθορίαν ἑυρων.—Compare Romans i, 27.

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Μὴ σπ(ε)ίρε τέκνων ἄλοκα δαιμόνων βίᾳ, κ.τ.λ.—Eurip. Phœnis. 19.

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ὀιδέω to swell, and ποῦς a foot; literally swell-foot. Welcker remarks that there is a peculiar significancy in the appellations connected with this legend; even Λάϊος being connected with λαικάζω, λαισκαπρος, and other similar words—(Trilog. p. 355)—but this is dangerous ground.

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The σχιστή ὁδος.—See Wordsworth’s Greece, p. 21.

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