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Scaeus helped his father Hippocoon to drive Tyndareus from Lacedaemon, and was afterwards slain there, with his father and brothers, by Heracles. He had therefore no connexion with Thebes, and is unlikely to have dedicated a tripod there as H. sees.

τεΐν: Doric and Epic for σοί. The abrupt change to the second person is peculiar. On extant inscriptions the god's name is in the vocative, not the dative, e. g. I. G. A. 402, Roberts No. 15 Ἄρτεμι σοὶ τόδ᾽ ἄγαλμα Τελεστοδί[κη ἀνέθηκεν] &c., and I. G. A. 412, Roberts No. 7 Παῖ Διός, Ἐκφάντῳ δέξαι τόδ᾽ ἀμενφὲς ἄγαλμα, | σοὶ γὰρ ἐπευχόμενος τοῦτ᾽ ἐτέλεσσε γρόφων.

ἄλλος. Pausanias (vi. 13. 5; cf. Frazer) saw at Olympia the statue of a victor in the boys' boxing, Scaeus from Samos, but its date seems to be circ. 350 B. C.

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