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ἀλλοφρονῆσαι = here ‘were stunned, lost their wits’ (cf. Hom. Il. xxiii. 698), whereas in vii. 205. 3 = ‘with other thoughts’, as in Hom. Od. x. 374. Similarly ἀλλογνῶσαι in Hippocrates means ‘go mad’, but in H. i. 85. 3 ‘fail to recognize’.

For the story in general compare that of the salvation of Delphi (viii. 37-40), those of the madness caused by Artemis (Paus. iii. 16. 9; vii. 19. 3), and above all the attempted rape of the statue of Hera from Samos, and the marvel by which it was prevented (Athen. 672 b).

ἀνακομισθῆναι αὐτόν, ‘was conveyed back alone.’

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