2603 ([return])
[ The councillors at Cyme who refused to support Homer at the public expense.]
2604 ([return])
[ The ‘better fruit’ is apparently the iron smelted out in fires of pine-wood.]
2605 ([return])
[ Hecate: cp. Hesiod, Theogony, l. 450.]
2606 ([return])
[ i.e. in protection.]
2607 ([return])
[ This song is called by pseudo-Herodotus EIRESIONE. The word properly indicates a garland wound with wool which was worn at harvest-festivals, but came to be applied first to the harvest song and then to any begging song. The present is akin the Swallow-Song (XELIDONISMA), sung at the beginning of spring, and answered to the still surviving English May-Day songs. Cp. Athenaeus, viii. 360 B.]