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[346] This horse, “Adrasti vocalis Arion” (Prop.ii. 34. 37) , was a favourite character in the Theban cycle, but is quite outside the Homeric myth-world. He was endowed with reason and speech, and was connected with the Arkadian worship of Poseidon and Demeter under equine forms; Paus.viii. 25. 5, where quotations from the Thebais and Antimachos are given. He was also woven into the Herakles-myths, Scut. Herc. 120, etc. MSS. vary between Ἀρίονα and “Ἀρείονα”: the local form at Thelpusa was “Ἐρίων” (Head, Hist. Numorum, p. 382).

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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