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ictu: cf. on 1.8.9. auguris Argivi: the Argive seer; Amphi&amacr;rius, whose wife Eriph<*>&ymacr;</*>le was bribed by Polyn&imacr;ces with the necklace of Harmonia to constrain her husband to join the expedition of the Seven against Thebes, in which he met the death he had foreseen. Their son, Alcmaeon, slew Eriph<*>&ymacr;</*>le to avenge his father, and was haunted by the furies of his mother like Orestes. The 'house' was thus like that of Pelops (1.6.8), a theme of tragedy. Cf. Ody. 11.326-327; Plato, Rep. 590 A; Apollod. 3.6; Ov. Met. 9.406; Stat. Theb. 2.267; Arnold, Frag. of an Antigone, 'nor . . . his beloved Argive seer would Zeus retain| From his appointed end'; Frazer, Pausanias, III. 608, 5.30.


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