[505] Ὑποθήβας: Lower Thebes, which lay on the plain; in distinction from Seven-gated Thebes with the Cadmeian citadel which was destroyed in the second Argive invasion by Diomed and his associates (cf. 4.406 ff.), and does not seem to have been rebuilt in the Homeric time.
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