[69] The daughters of Prœtus. According to Apollodorus, Melampus cured them of madness, probably the effect of a disease of the skin.
[70] Alphi, Lepra alphoides. Leuce, white tetter or common leprosy. Leichen, a cutaneous disease tending to leprosy.
[71] The position of Pylus of Messenia is uncertain. D’Anville places it at New Navarino. Barbié de Bocage at Old Navarino. See also Ernst Curtius, Peloponnesus.
[72] Il. vii. 133.
[73] Il. ix. 153.
[74] Some MSS. have 120 stadia.
[75] Il. ii. 591.
[76] Il. xi. 710
[77] A marsh.
[78] The sea-shore.