1730 ([return])
[ Of Cyme. He wrote a universal history covering the period between the Dorian Migration and 340 B.C.]
1731 ([return])
[ i.e. the nomad Scythians, who are described by Herodotus as feeding on mares’ milk and living in caravans.]
1732 ([return])
[ 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.]
1733 ([return])
[ 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.]
1734 ([return])
[ 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 there turned back by Iris from pursuing the Harpies.]