[Footnote 4: Oedipus.]
[Footnote 5: Son of Polyneikes. Theron traced his descent from him.]
[Footnote 6: The War of the Epigonoi against Thebes.]
[Footnote 7: Reading [Greek: ei ge min echon]. The old readings were [Greek: ei de min echon] and [Greek: ei de min echei; eu de min echon] has also been suggested; but of these three none seems to me to be at all satisfactory. In the reading I suggest the change is very slight, and it makes good sense.]
[Footnote 8: For Pindar's ideas as to a future life see especially the fragments of his Dirges which remain to us. He seems to have been influenced by Pythagoreanism.]
[Footnote 9: Memnon.]
III.
FOR THERON OF AKRAGAS,
WINNER IN THE CHARIOT-RACE.
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