2508 ([return])
[ Undercutter and Woodcutter are probably popular names (after the style of Hesiod’s ‘Boneless One’) for the worm thought to be the cause of teething and toothache.]
2509 ([return])
[ The list of names is taken—with five additions—from Hesiod, Theogony 349 ff.: for their general significance see note on that passage.]
2510 ([return])
[ Inscriptions show that there was a temple of Apollo Delphinius (cp. ii. 495-6) at Cnossus and a Cretan month bearing the same name.]
2511 ([return])
[ sc. that the dolphin was really Apollo.]
2512 ([return])
[ The epithets are transferred from the god to his altar ‘Overlooking’ is especially an epithet of Zeus, as in Apollonius Rhodius ii. 1124.]