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[106] μάντι κακῶν: ill-boding seer. Some of the ancients thought this referred to the seer's words at Aulis, where he showed that Artemis demanded the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia in return for an insolent word of the king (Soph. El. 566 ff.). — cf. ‘But I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil’ 1 Kings xxii. 8.

τὸ κρήγυον: equiv. to “ἐσθλόν” v. 108, in contrast with “κακῶν”. For the generic use of the art., cf. “τὰ κακά” v. 107, and see on “τὰ χερείονα” v. 576.

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