[947] Coray’s proposed reading is adopted, κατὰ for καὶ.
[948] According to Heyne, this was an Assyrian goddess worshipped under various titles.
[949] In consequence of the intrigues of his stepmother Ino he was to be sacrificed to Zeus, but his mother Nephele removed him and his sister Helle, and the two then rode away on the ram with the golden fleece, the gift of Hermes, through the air. Helle fell into the sea, which was afterwards called, after her, the Hellespont. Smith, art. Phrixus.
[950] The son of Menodotus by a daughter of Adobogion, a descendant of the tetrarchs of Galatia. He was the personal friend of Cæsar, who at the commencement of the Alexandrian war (B. C. 48) sent him into Syria and Cilicia to raise auxiliary forces. Smith, art. Mithridates, and see B. xiii. c. iv. § 3.
[951] Eurip. Troad. 26.
[952] σκηπτουχίας
[953] Casaubon would read Corax.—The Sukum.
[954] Adopting Kramer’s proposed reading, ἔνιοι in place of εἰ μὴ.
[955] The Arak.
[956] In the English map, reduced from the Russian military map, there are two rivers Alasan, flowing in contrary directions from M. Bebala. The modern names of the other rivers here mentioned are not well ascertained.