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παρθενικαὶ πόσιν: The Doric maidens of Kyrene were present at the games. The wish, as the wish of Nausikaa, Od. 6. 244: αἲ γὰρ ἐμοὶ τοιόσδε πόσις κεκλημένος εἴη.

υἱὸν εὔχοντο: “Or they (the mothers) wished as son.” The shift is sudden, and Hartung's αἱ δ᾽ for is worth considering; not so Bergk's awkward παρθενικᾷ, which destroys the color of ἄφωνοι, and does not allow us to supply the complementary φωνᾷ to the complementary ματέρες, as Hartung's αἱ δ᾽ would do.


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