Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica [57]
fragment) and "Oxyrhynchus Papyri", 421 (right-hand fragment). For the restoration see "Class. Quart." vii. 217-8. (5) As the price to be given to her father for her: so in "Iliad" xviii. 593 maidens are called `earners of oxen'. Possibly Glaucus, like Aias (fr. 68, ll. 55 ff.), raided the cattle of others. (6) i.e. Glaucus should father the children of others. The curse of Aphrodite on the daughters of Tyndareus (fr. 67) may be compared. (7) Porphyry, scholar, mathematician, philosopher and historian, lived 233-305 (?) A.D. He was a pupil of the neo-Platonist Plotinus. (8) Author of a geographical lexicon, produced after 400 A.D., and abridged under Justinian. (9) Archbishop of Thessalonica 1175-1192 (?) A.D., author of commentaries on Pindar and on the "Iliad" and "Odyssey". (10) In the earliest times a loin-cloth was worn by athletes, but was discarded after the 14th Olympiad. (11) Slight remains of five lines precede line 1 in the original: after line 20 an unknown number of lines have been lost, and traces of a verse preceding line 21 are here omitted. Between lines 29 and 30 are fragments of six verses which do not suggest any definite restoration. (NOTE: Line enumeration is that according to Evelyn-White; a slightly different line numbering system is adopted in the original publication of this fragment. -- DBK) (12) The end of Schoeneus' speech, the preparations and the beginning of the race are lost. (13) Of the three which Aphrodite gave him to enable him to overcome Atalanta. (14) The geographer; fl. c.24 B.C. (15) Of Miletus, flourished about 520 B.C. His work, a mixture of history and geography, was used by Herodotus. (16) The Hesiodic story of the daughters of Proetus can be reconstructed from these sources. They were sought in marriage by all the Greeks (Pauhellenes), but having offended Dionysus (or, according to Servius, Juno), were afflicted with a disease which destroyed their beauty (or were turned into cows). They were finally healed by Melampus. (17) Fl. 56-88 A.D.: he is best known for his work on Vergil. (18) This and the following fragment segment are meant to be read together. -- DBK. (19) This fragment as well as fragments #40A, #101, and #102 were added by Mr. Evelyn-White in an appendix to the second edition (1919). They are here moved to the "Catalogues" proper for easier use by the reader. -- DBK. (20) For the restoration of ll. 1-16 see "Ox. Pap." pt. xi. pp. 46-7: the supplements of ll. 17-31 are by the Translator (cp. "Class. Quart." x. (1916), pp. 65-67). (21) The crocus was to attract Europa, as in the very similar story of Persephone: cp. "Homeric Hymns" ii. lines 8 ff. (22) Apollodorus of Athens (fl. 144 B.C.) was a pupil of Aristarchus. He wrote a Handbook of Mythology, from which the extant work bearing his name is derived. (23) Priest at Praeneste. He lived c. 170-230 A.D. (24) Son of Apollonius Dyscolus, lived in Rome under Marcus Aurelius. His chief work was on accentuation. (25) This and the next two fragment segments are meant to be read together. -- DBK. (26) Sacred to Poseidon. For the custom observed there, cp. "Homeric Hymns" iii. 231 ff. (27) The allusion is obscure. (28) Apollonius `the Crabbed' was a grammarian of Alexandria under Hadrian. He wrote largely on Grammar and Syntax. (29) 275-195 (?) B.C., mathematician, astronomer, scholar, and head of the Library of Alexandria. (30) Of Cyme. He wrote a universal history covering the period between the Dorian Migration and 340 B.C. (31) i.e. the nomad Scythians, who are described by Herodotus as feeding on mares' milk and living in caravans. (32) The restorations are mainly those adopted or suggested in "Ox. Pap." pt. xi. pp. 48 ff.: for those of ll. 8-14 see "Class. Quart." x. (1916) pp. 67-69. (33) i.e. those who seek to outwit the oracle, or to ask of it more than they ought,