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... doubt because she fell in love with her enemy Minos , and offered herself to him . It is also possible that Callimachus wrote more fully of her in his Aetia . In the miserable remnants of fr . 113 which have survived the proper name ...
... doubt because she fell in love with her enemy Minos , and offered herself to him . It is also possible that Callimachus wrote more fully of her in his Aetia . In the miserable remnants of fr . 113 which have survived the proper name ...
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... doubt based on Il . ix . 567 ff . , where she curses Meleager , râs d ' ǹepopoîtɩs ' Epivòs | ἔκλυεν ἐξ ̓Ερέβεσφιν ἀμείλιχον ἦτορ ἔχουσα ( 571-2 ) . But in Homer there is no mention of a magic stick , so that the Fury is a more active ...
... doubt based on Il . ix . 567 ff . , where she curses Meleager , râs d ' ǹepopoîtɩs ' Epivòs | ἔκλυεν ἐξ ̓Ερέβεσφιν ἀμείλιχον ἦτορ ἔχουσα ( 571-2 ) . But in Homer there is no mention of a magic stick , so that the Fury is a more active ...
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... described in language reminding us of Laocoon hurling his spear at the Wooden Horse . There is much exaggeration and overdrawing in these passages , as the poet no doubt intended . Erysicthon's sole motive 132 COMMENTARY.
... described in language reminding us of Laocoon hurling his spear at the Wooden Horse . There is much exaggeration and overdrawing in these passages , as the poet no doubt intended . Erysicthon's sole motive 132 COMMENTARY.
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12th cent Accius Achelous Aetia Althaea ambo Amores Ancaeus Apollodorus Baucis and Philemon boar Boeo Brooks Otis Burman Callimachus Calydonian Catullus Catullus 64 Cicero Ciris Compare corpora Crete Daedalus dixit Ennius episode epithet erat Erysicthon esset Euripides Fairy's Revenge Fasti folk-tale fragment Georgics Greek Hecale Heinsius Hellenistic Hermes heroes Heroides Hesiod Heteroeumena Homer Horace hunc Hunger Hyginus hymn Icarus illa ipse Latin legend Lelex Magnus manus manuscript Medea medio Megara Meleager Meleager's Mestra Metamorphoses mihi Minos modo neoteric Nicander Nisus Nonnus nunc Oeneus Ovid Ovid's Ovidian Parthenius pater Pausanias Perdix perhaps phrase Plan poem poetry probably Propertius pseudo-Hesiod quae quam quod quoque Roman saepe sanguine Scylla Silius simile story sunt tamen terra Theseus tibi tradition transformation Tristia undas unus variant verb viii Virgil word Zeus δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε τὸν