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τὰ λεγόμενα: i. e. the common Hellenic tradition found in the poets and logographers.

τούτους ... βασιλέας. The Heracleid leaders (cf. § 2) of the Dorian invasion. The genealogy is Hyllus — Heracles—Amphitryon—Alcaeus—Perseus.

τοῦ θεοῦ: i. e. Zeus, called father of Perseus (vii. 61. 3). ‘Omitting the god, the accepted list is correct.’ H. cannot accept the divine parentage of Perseus, as is shown by his treatment elsewhere of heroic genealogies (cf. ii. 43-5, 142-6; iv. 5. 1).

ἤδη ... ἐτέλεον. Perseus and his race, though by descent Egyptian, from his time on were accounted Hellenes reigning for four generations in Argos. For ἐτέλεον cf. ii. 51. 2; vi. 108. 5.

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