βωμῷ with “προσπεσόντα”, rather than locative dat. with “καθῆσθαι”: with the latter cp. 1160 “θάκημα”, 1163 “ἕδρα” ( O. T. 15 “προσήμεθα”, ib. 20 “θακεῖ”, and ib. 2 n.). ἔκυρον. In Eur. Hipp. 746 “κύρων” was restored by Heath from MS. “κυ^ρῶν” (v.l. “ναίων”): elsewhere Attic poets have only “κυρέω”. Il. 23.821 has “κῦρον”: Hom. Hymn. 5.189 “κῦρε”: and the form was used by the Alexandrian poets. It seems unnecessary, then, to conjecture “κυρῶν ἔθυον” (Blaydes). ἡνίχ᾽ ὡρμώμην, “"when I first set out,"” lit., “"when I proceeded to set out"”: i.e. when he left the sacrifice, summoned by the cry of the Chorus, 887.
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