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[ For Cyrene and Aristaeus, cp. Vergil, Georgics, iv. 315 ff.]
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[ A writer on mythology of uncertain date.]
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[ In Epirus. The oracle was first consulted by Deucalion and Pyrrha after the Flood. Later writers say that the god responded in the rustling of leaves in the oaks for which the place was famous.]
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[ The fragment is part of a leaf from a papyrus book of the 4th century A.D.]
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[ According to Homer and later writers Meleager wasted away when his mother Althea burned the brand on which his life depended, because he had slain her brothers in the dispute for the hide of the Calydonian boar. (Cp. Bacchylides, “Ode” v. 136 ff.)]