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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Said to be an Ionian term—“One who follows a guide.” There are several other interpretations of the name, not necessary to be given here.
[2] Max Müller; Cox’s Tales of Ancient Greece.
[3] Curtius’s Hist. of Greece, i. 80.
[4] Grote, Hist. of Greece, i. 271.