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Colaeus is at once ship-owner (ναύκληρος), captain, and merchant (cf. i. 5. 2).

The usual course was by Rhodes and Cyprus (cf. ii. 182. 2 n.); hence ἀπηνείχθη.

For Tartessus cf. i. 163. 1 n.


Ταρτησσόν. Of the lucky Sostratus we know nothing; it is significant that he was an Aeginetan.


πρόκροσσοι. κρόσσος (ii. 125. 1 n.) is something ‘projecting’; so in Il. xiv. 35τῶ ῥα προκρόσσας ἔρυσαν”, the Greek ships are drawn up on the shore ‘with beaks projecting’, and in vii. 188. 1 the ships of Xerxes ‘project’ τὸ ἐς πόντον. Here the griffins are placed upon the rim, facing outwards, no doubt as charms to ward off mischief (cf. Furtwängler in Roscher, i. 1764-5, with pictures). Others translate ‘in a row’.

χαλκήιον. For the importance of this bowl in the history of art cf. Murray, G. S. i. 78.


φιλίαι μεγάλαι. For further connexion between Cyrene and Samos cf. 163. 1.

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