[1131] δραξαμένη: ἔθος ἐστὶ ταῖς κυούσαις τῶν παρακειμένων λαμβάνεσθαι καὶ ἀποκουφίζειν ἑαυτὰς τῶν ἀλγηδόνων, ὡς καὶ Λητὼ ἐλάβετο τοῦ φοίνικος … ἔδει δὲ εἰπεῖν Ὀαξίδος: προσετέθη δὲ τὸ ι_. Schol.
Οἰαξίδος: Oaxus was a city of Crete on a river of the same name; cf. Virg. E. 1. 66, “rapidum Cretae veniemus Oaxen”, where Servius cites two lines from the Argonautica of Varro Atacinus: Quos magno Anchiale partus adducta dolore Et geminis capiens tellurem Oaxida palmis Edidit in Dicta. ἐβλάστησεν: for the rare causal sense of βλαστέω, found in Hippocrates, cf. 4. 676, 1517. The ordinary intrans. use occurs in 3. 921, 4. 1425. Aesch. Cho. 589, etc.