1762 (return) [ In Epirus. The oracle was first consulted by Deucalion
and Pyrrha after the Flood. Later writers say that the god responded in
the rustling of leaves in the oaks for which the place was famous.]
1763 (return) [ The fragment is part of a leaf from a papyrus book of
the 4th century A.D.]
1764 (return) [ According to Homer and later writers Meleager wasted
away when his mother Althea burned the brand on which his life
depended, because he had slain her brothers in the dispute for the hide
of the Calydonian boar. (Cp. Bacchylides, “Ode” v. 136 ff.)]
1765 (return) [ The fragment probably belongs to the _Catalogues_
proper rather than to the Eoiae; but, as its position is uncertain, it
may conveniently be associated with Frags. 99A and the _Shield of
Heracles_.]
1766 (return) [ Most of the smaller restorations appear in the original
publication, but the larger are new: these last are highly conjectual,
there being no definite clue to the general sense.]
1767 (return) [ Alcmaon (who took part in the second of the two heroic
Theban expeditions) is perhaps mentioned only incidentally as the son
of Amphiaraus, who seems to be clearly indicated in ll. 7-8, and whose
story occupies ll. 5-10. At l. 11 the subject changes and Electryon is
introduced as father of Alcmena.]
1768 (return) [ The association of ll. 1-16 with ll. 17-24 is presumed
from the apparent mention of Erichthonius in l. 19. A new section must
then begin at l. 21. See “Ox. Pap.” pt. xi. p. 55 (and for restoration
of ll. 5-16, ib. p. 53). ll. 19-20 are restored by the Translator.]
1801 (return) [ A mountain peak near Thebes which took its name from
the Sphinx (called in _Theogony_ l. 326 PHIX).]
1802 (return) [ Cyanus was a glass-paste of deep blue colour: the
‘zones’ were concentric bands in which were the scenes described by the
poet. The figure of Fear (l. 44) occupied the centre of the shield, and
Oceanus (l. 314) enclosed the whole.]
1803 (return) [ ‘She who drives herds,’ _i.e._ ‘The Victorious’, since
herds were the chief spoil gained by the victor in ancient warfare.]