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[584] γαίηοχον ἐννοσίγαιον, I 183. This passage has frequently been quoted as shewing that Poseidon was to Homer, as to later Greece, god of horses, “Ἵππιος” (see Pausan. vii. 21. 8). But other indications of this function are so doubtful that no stress can be laid on it (see also on 277, 307). Poseidon is the natural god for Antilochos to swear by, as being the god of his race, and father of his grandfather Neleus.

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