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It is quite in accordance with Eastern usage that the usurper should take the wife of his predecessor. Cf. 2 Sam. xvi. 21-2 (Absalom and David), and iii. 68. 3.

τοῦ καὶ. The editors bracket these lines, which disturb the connexion, and the technical ἰάμβῳ τριμέτρῳ is suspicious; H. (47. 2 et al.) uses τόνῳ. But Crusius, P. W. (s. v. Archilochus), accepts them as genuine. The line of Archil. (fr. 25) is οὔ μοι τὰ Γύγεω τοῦ πολυχρύσου μέλει (cf. Arist. Rhet. iii. 17, 1418 b).

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