1744 (return) [ Wooing was by proxy; so Agamemnon wooed Helen for his
brother Menelaus (ll. 14-15), and Idomeneus, who came in person and
sent no deputy, is specially mentioned as an exception, and the reasons
for this—if the restoration printed in the text be right—is stated (ll.
69 ff.).]
1745 (return) [ The Papyrus here marks the beginning of a second book
possibly of the _Eoiae_. The passage (ll. 2-50) probably led up to an
account of the Trojan (and Theban?) war, in which, according to _Works
and Days_ ll. 161-166, the Race of Heroes perished. The opening of the
_Cypria_ is somewhat similar. Somewhere in the fragmentary lines 13-19
a son of Zeus—almost certainly Apollo—was introduced, though for what
purpose is not clear. With l. 31 the destruction of man (cp. ll. 4-5)
by storms which spoil his crops begins: the remaining verses are
parenthetical, describing the snake “which bears its young in the
spring season”.]
1746 (return) [ _i.e._ the snake; as in _Works and Days_ l. 524, the
“Boneless One” is the cuttle-fish.]
1747 (return) [ c. 1110-1180 A.D. His chief work was a poem,
“Chiliades”, in accentual verse of nearly 13,000 lines.]
1748 (return) [ According to this account Iphigeneia was carried by
Artemis to the Taurie Chersonnese (the Crimea). The Tauri (Herodotus
iv. 103) identified their maiden-goddess with Iphigeneia; but Euripides
(_Iphigeneia in Tauris_) makes her merely priestess of the goddess.]
1749 (return) [ Of Alexandria. He lived in the 5th century, and
compiled a Greek Lexicon.]
1750 (return) [ For his murder Minos exacted a yearly tribute of boys
and girls, to be devoured by the Minotaur, from the Athenians.]
1751 (return) [ Of Naucratis. His “Deipnosophistae” (“Dons at Dinner”)
is an encyclopaedia of miscellaneous topics in the form of a dialogue.
His date is c. 230 A.D.]
1752 (return) [ There is a fancied connection between LAAS (‘stone’)
and LAOS (‘people’). The reference is to the stones which Deucalion and
Pyrrha transformed into men and women after the Flood.]
1753 (return) [ Eustathius identifies Ileus with Oileus, father of
Aias. Here again is fanciful etymology, ILEUS being similar to ILEOS
(complaisant, gracious).]
1754 (return) [ Imitated by Vergil, “Aeneid” vii. 808, describing
Camilla.]
1755 (return) [ c. 600 A.D., a lecturer and grammarian of
Constantinople.]
1756 (return) [ Priest of Apollo, and, according to Homer, discoverer
of wine. Maronea in Thrace is said to have been called after him.]
1757 (return) [ The crow was originally white, but was turned black by
Apollo in his anger at the news brought by the bird.]
1758 (return) [ A philosopher of Athens under Hadrian and Antonius. He
became a Christian and wrote a defence of the Christians addressed to
Antoninus Pius.]
1759 (return) [ Zeus slew Asclepus (fr. 90) because of his success as a
healer, and Apollo in revenge killed the Cyclopes (fr. 64). In
punishment Apollo was forced to serve Admetus as herdsman. (Cp.
Euripides, _Alcestis_, 1-8)]
1760 (return) [ For Cyrene and Aristaeus, cp. Vergil, _Georgics_, iv.
315 ff.]