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θηεύμενον. No doubt the king had a throne on the Trachinian heights as above Salamis (viii. 88, 90).

ἀναδραμεῖν, ‘leapt up’ (ch. 15. 1), a sign of fear (Hom. Il. xx. 62) and of astonishment (iii. 155. 1).


κατὰ τάξις ... ἔθνεα, ‘by tribes and regiments’; cf. ix. 33. 1; and κατὰ τέλεα, ch. 211 ad fin., ch. 81 n.

τὴν ἀτραπόν: mentioned ch. 175. 2, described ch. 216.

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