2901 ([return])
[ So called from Teumessus, a hill in Boeotia. For the derivation of Teumessus cp. Antimachus Thebais fr. 3 (Kinkel).]
3001 ([return])
[ The preceding part of the Epic Cycle (?).]
3002 ([return])
[ While the Greeks were sacrificing at Aulis, a serpent appeared and devoured eight young birds from their nest and lastly the mother of the brood. This was interpreted by Calchas to mean that the war would swallow up nine full years. Cp. Iliad ii, 299 ff.]
3003 ([return])
[ i.e. Stasinus (or Hegesias: cp. fr. 6): the phrase ‘Cyprian histories’ is equivalent to “The Cypria”.]
3004 ([return])
[ Cp. Allen “C.R.” xxvii. 190.]