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The name Adrastus seems to refer to the goddess Adrasteia (= ‘Necessity’; cf. Aesch. P. V. 936); for her connexion with Nemesis cf. Farnell, G. C. ii. 499-500; he shows that she was a form of Cybele, who, ‘through a misunderstanding of the name’, acquired the character, really foreign to her, of ‘a stern goddess of justice’. The Phrygian and the Argive Adrastus (cf. v. 67 n.) are both the victims of ‘inevitable fate’.

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