[823] Glauci chorus like “Phorci chorus” above v. 240. ‘Senior,’ old, like Glaucus himself, who was represented as so covered with marine incrustations as to have lost all trace of his pristine form (Plato, Rep. 10, p. 611), and to be constantly bewailing his immortality (Schol. on Plato l. c.). Keats has seized this point in his elaborate description of him in Endymion, Book 3. The ‘chorus’ are doubtless sea-gods, as in v. 240, though Glaucus was represented as accompanied by κήτεα when he went about yearly to the coasts and islands of Greece (Paus. 9. 22, § 6). ‘Inous Palaemon’ G. 1. 437.
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