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Ὑλαίην: cf. 18. 1 n. The ‘grotto’ is part of the legendary furniture of the Echidna story; cf. Hes. Theog. 297.


διατεινόμενον. The Scyths drew to the shoulder, not to the breast (like the Cretans); they used both hands indiscriminately (Plat. Laws, 795 A). For Heracles' Scythian bow cf. Theoc. xiii. 56.

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