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For the genitive after ἐς cf. Plat. Prot. 325 D εἰς διδασκάλων πέμποντες; but the τῶν before ἐξηγητέων is unusual.

There were three places called Telmessus—in Pisidia, in Caria, (about seven miles from Halicarnassus), and in Lycia; probably the last is here meant (cf. 84. 3). Arrian (Anab. ii. 3. 3) says the gift of prophecy was hereditary there. Cf. Head, H. N. 698, for Apollo on the (late) coins of Telmessus.


ἀλλόθροον. For the interpretation of the well-known struggle in Attica between Poseidon, whose symbol is the horse, and Athene, whose fosterling, Erechtheus, is ‘earth-born’ and snake-like in form, cf. viii. 41. 2 and J. H. S. xix. 215.

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