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[276] πατρός, sc. Icarius. Where he dwelt was an old question. Aristotle (de Poet.cap. penult.) leans to the tradition which places him in Cephallenia; “οἴονται γὰρ αὐτὸν Λάκωνα εἶναι: ἄτοπον οὖν τὸ μὴ ἐντυχεῖν τὸν Τηλέμαχον αὐτῷ εἰς Λακεδαίμονα ἐλθόντα: τὸ δὲ ἴσως ἔχει ὥσπερ οἱ Κεφάλληνές φασι, παρ᾽ αὐτῶν γὰρ γῆμαι λέγουσι τὸν Ὀδυσσέα, καὶ εἶναι Ἰκάδιον ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ Ἰκάριον”. Strabo (10. 461) makes him the brother of Tyndarus and son of Oebalus king of Sparta: he and Tyndarus, driven out by Hippocoon, fled to Acarnania. Tyndarus returned, but Icarius got part of Acarnania for himself, and there remained. Notice the quantity of “δυ_ναμένοιο” lengthened by arsis.

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