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The name Γρῖννος is found in a late inscription, now at Verona but probably from Thera, the well-known ‘testamentum Epictetae’ (C. I. G. ii. 2448).

ἑκατόμβην. The early king is also priest (cf. 161. 3). At Sparta the king communicated with Delphi by deputy (vi. 57. 2). In a late inscription at Thera the priest of Apollo Carneus boasts his descent from Lacedaemonian ‘kings’.

Εὐφημίδης is a conjecture from Pyth. iv, where Pindar, in praising Arcesilaus, introduces the legend that his ancestor Euphemus (cf. 145. 2 n.) had handselled the soil of Libya, receiving a clod of earth from Triton (Pyth. iv. 36). H. makes no reference to the story.

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