Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
1725 (return) [ This and the next two fragment segments are meant to be
read together.—DBK.]
1726 (return) [ Sacred to Poseidon. For the custom observed there, cp.
_Homeric Hymns_ iii. 231 ff.]
1727 (return) [ The allusion is obscure.]
1728 (return) [ Apollonius ‘the Crabbed’ was a grammarian of Alexandria
under Hadrian. He wrote largely on Grammar and Syntax.]
1729 (return) [ 275-195 (?) B.C., mathematician, astronomer, scholar,
and head of the Library of Alexandria.]
1730 (return) [ Of Cyme. He wrote a universal history covering the
period between the Dorian Migration and 340 B.C.]
1731 (return) [ _i.e._ the nomad Scythians, who are described by
Herodotus as feeding on mares’ milk and living in caravans.]
1732 (return) [ The restorations are mainly those adopted or suggested
in “Ox. Pap.” pt. xi. pp. 48 ff.: for those of ll. 8-14 see “Class.
Quart.” x. (1916) pp. 67-69.]
1733 (return) [ _i.e._ those who seek to outwit the oracle, or to ask
of it more than they ought, will be deceived by it and be led to ruin:
cp. _Hymn to Hermes_, 541 ff.]
1734 (return) [ Zetes and Calais, sons of Boreas, who were amongst the
Argonauts, delivered Phineus from the Harpies. The Strophades (‘Islands
of Turning’) are here supposed to have been so called because the sons
of Boreas were there turned back by Iris from pursuing the Harpies.]
1735 (return) [ An Epicurean philosopher, fl. 50 B.C.]
1736 (return) [ ‘Charming-with-her-voice’ (or ‘Charming-the-mind’),
‘Song’, and ‘Lovely-sounding’.]
1737 (return) [ Diodorus Siculus, fl. 8 B.C., author of an universal
history ending with Caesar’s Gallic Wars.]
1738 (return) [ The first epic in the “Trojan Cycle”; like all ancient
epics it was ascribed to Homer, but also, with more probability, to
Stasinus of Cyprus.]
1739 (return) [ This fragment is placed by Spohn after _Works and Days_
l. 120.]
1740 (return) [ A Greek of Asia Minor, author of the “Description of
Greece” (on which he was still engaged in 173 A.D.).]
1741 (return) [ Wilamowitz thinks one or other of these citations
belongs to the Catalogue.]
1742 (return) [ Lines 1-51 are from Berlin Papyri, 9739; lines 52-106
with B. 1-50 (and following fragments) are from Berlin Papyri, 10560. A
reference by Pausanias (iii. 24. 10) to ll. 100 ff. proves that the two
fragments together come from the _Catalogue of Women_. The second book
(the beginning of which is indicated after l. 106) can hardly be the
second book of the _Catalogues_ proper: possibly it should be assigned
to the EOIAI, which were sometimes treated as part of the _Catalogues_,
and sometimes separated from it. The remains of thirty-seven lines
following B. 50 in the Papyrus are too slight to admit of restoration.]
1743 (return) [ sc. the Suitor whose name is lost.]
1744 (return) [ Wooing was by proxy; so Agamemnon wooed Helen for his
brother Menelaus (ll. 14-15), and Idomeneus, who came in person and
sent no deputy, is specially mentioned as an exception, and the reasons
for this—if the restoration printed in the text be right—is stated (ll.
69 ff.).]
1745 (return) [ The Papyrus here marks the beginning of a second book
possibly of the _Eoiae_. The passage (ll. 2-50) probably led up to an
account of the Trojan (and Theban?) war, in which, according to _Works
and Days_ ll. 161-166, the Race of Heroes perished. The opening of the
_Cypria_ is somewhat similar. Somewhere in the fragmentary lines 13-19
a son of Zeus—almost certainly Apollo—was introduced, though for what
purpose is not clear. With l. 31 the destruction of man (cp. ll. 4-5)
by storms which spoil his crops begins: the remaining verses are
parenthetical, describing the snake “which bears its young in the
spring season”.]
1746 (return) [ _i.e._ the snake; as in _Works and Days_ l. 524, the
“Boneless One” is the cuttle-fish.]
1747 (return) [ c. 1110-1180 A.D. His chief work was a poem,
“Chiliades”, in accentual verse of nearly 13,000 lines.]
1748 (return) [ According to this account Iphigeneia was carried by
Artemis to the Taurie Chersonnese (the Crimea). The Tauri (Herodotus
iv. 103) identified their maiden-goddess with Iphigeneia; but Euripides
(_Iphigeneia in Tauris_) makes her merely priestess of the goddess.]
1749 (return) [ Of Alexandria. He lived in the 5th century, and
compiled a Greek Lexicon.]
1750 (return) [ For his murder Minos exacted a yearly tribute of boys
and girls, to be devoured by the Minotaur, from the Athenians.]
1751 (return) [ Of Naucratis. His “Deipnosophistae” (“Dons at Dinner”)
is an encyclopaedia of miscellaneous topics in the form of a dialogue.
His date is c. 230 A.D.]
1752 (return) [ There is a fancied connection between LAAS (‘stone’)
and LAOS (‘people’). The reference is to the stones which Deucalion and
Pyrrha transformed into men and women after the Flood.]
1753 (return) [ Eustathius identifies Ileus with Oileus, father of
Aias. Here again is fanciful etymology, ILEUS being similar to ILEOS
(complaisant, gracious).]
1754 (return) [ Imitated by Vergil, “Aeneid” vii. 808, describing
Camilla.]
1755 (return) [ c. 600 A.D., a lecturer and grammarian of
Constantinople.]
1756 (return) [ Priest of Apollo, and, according to Homer, discoverer
of wine. Maronea in Thrace is said to have been called after him.]
1757 (return) [ The crow was originally white, but was turned black by
Apollo in his anger at the news brought by the bird.]
1758 (return) [ A philosopher of Athens under Hadrian and Antonius. He
became a Christian and wrote a defence of the Christians addressed to
Antoninus Pius.]
1759 (return) [ Zeus slew Asclepus (fr. 90) because of his success as a
healer, and Apollo in revenge killed the Cyclopes (fr. 64). In
punishment Apollo was forced to serve Admetus as herdsman. (Cp.
Euripides, _Alcestis_, 1-8)]
1760 (return) [ For Cyrene and Aristaeus, cp. Vergil, _Georgics_, iv.
315 ff.]
1761 (return) [ A writer on mythology of uncertain date.]
1762 (return) [ In Epirus. The oracle was first consulted by Deucalion
and Pyrrha after the Flood. Later writers say that the god responded in
the rustling of leaves in the oaks for which the place was famous.]
1763 (return) [ The fragment is part of a leaf from a papyrus book of
the 4th century A.D.]
1764 (return) [ According to Homer and later writers Meleager wasted
away when his mother Althea burned the brand on which his life
depended, because he had slain her brothers in the dispute for the hide
of the Calydonian boar. (Cp. Bacchylides, “Ode” v. 136 ff.)]
1765 (return) [ The fragment probably belongs to the _Catalogues_
proper rather than to the Eoiae; but, as its position is uncertain, it
may conveniently be associated with Frags. 99A and the _Shield of
Heracles_.]
1766 (return) [ Most of the smaller restorations appear in the original
publication, but the larger are new: these last are highly conjectual,
there being no definite clue to the general sense.]
1767 (return) [ Alcmaon (who took part in the second of the two heroic
Theban expeditions) is perhaps mentioned only incidentally as the son
of Amphiaraus, who seems to be clearly indicated in ll. 7-8, and whose
story occupies ll. 5-10. At l. 11 the subject changes and Electryon is
introduced as father of Alcmena.]
1768 (return) [ The association of ll. 1-16 with ll. 17-24 is presumed
from the apparent mention of Erichthonius in l. 19. A new section must
then begin at l. 21. See “Ox. Pap.” pt. xi. p. 55 (and for restoration
of ll. 5-16, ib. p. 53). ll. 19-20 are restored by the Translator.]
1801 (return) [ A mountain peak near Thebes which took its name from
the Sphinx (called in _Theogony_ l. 326 PHIX).]
1802 (return) [ Cyanus was a glass-paste of deep blue colour: the
‘zones’ were concentric bands in which were the scenes described by the
poet. The figure of Fear (l. 44) occupied the centre of the shield, and
Oceanus (l. 314) enclosed the whole.]
1803 (return) [ ‘She who drives herds,’ _i.e._ ‘The Victorious’, since
herds were the chief spoil gained by the victor in ancient warfare.]
1804 (return) [ The cap of darkness which made its wearer invisible.]
1805 (return) [ The existing text of the vineyard scene is a compound
of two different versions, clumsily adapted, and eked out with some
makeshift additions.]
1806 (return) [ The conception is similar to that of the sculptured
group at Athens of Two Lions devouring a Bull (Dickens, _Cat. of the
Acropolis Museum_, No. 3).]
1901 (return) [ A Greek sophist who taught rhetoric at Rome in the time
of Hadrian. He is the author of a collection of proverbs in three
books.]
2001 (return) [ When Heracles prayed that a son might be born to
Telamon and Eriboea, Zeus sent forth an eagle in token that the prayer
would be granted. Heracles then bade the parents call their son Aias
after the eagle (_aietos_).]
2002 (return) [ Oenomaus, king of Pisa in Elis, warned by an oracle
that he should be killed by his son-in-law, offered his daughter
Hippodamia to the man who could defeat him in a chariot race, on
condition that the defeated suitors should be slain by him. Ultimately
Pelops, through the treachery of the charioteer of Oenomaus, became
victorious.]
2003 (return) [ sc. to Scythia.]
2004 (return) [ In the Homeric _Hymn to Hermes_ Battus almost
disappears from the story, and a somewhat different account of the
stealing of the cattle is given.]
2101 (return) [ sc. Colophon. Proclus in his abstract of the _Returns_
(sc. of the heroes from Troy) says Calchas and his party were present
at the death of Teiresias at Colophon, perhaps indicating another
version of this story.]
2102 (return) [ ll. 1-2 are quoted by Athenaeus, ii. p. 40; ll. 3-4 by
Clement of Alexandria, _Stromateis_ vi. 2. 26. Buttman saw that the two
fragments should be joined. (NOTE: These two fragments should be read
together.—DBK)]
2201 (return) [ sc. the golden fleece of the ram which carried Phrixus
and Helle away from Athamas and Ino. When he reached Colchis Phrixus
sacrificed the ram to Zeus.]
2202 (return) [ Euboea properly means the ‘Island of fine Cattle (or
Cows)’.]
2301 (return) [ This and the following fragment are meant to be read
together.—DBK]
2302 (return) [ cp. Hesiod _Theogony_ 81 ff. But Theognis 169, ‘Whomso
the god honour, even a man inclined to blame praiseth him’, is much
nearer.]
2401 (return) [ Cf. Scholion on Clement, “Protrept.” i. p. 302.]
2402 (return) [ This line may once have been read in the text of _Works
and Days_ after l. 771.]
2501 (return) [ ll. 1-9 are preserved by Diodorus Siculus iii. 66. 3;
ll. 10-21 are extant only in M.]
2502 (return) [ Dionysus, after his untimely birth from Semele, was
sewn into the thigh of Zeus.]
2503 (return) [ _sc_. Semele. Zeus is here speaking.]
2504 (return) [ The reference is apparently to something in the body of
the hymn, now lost.]
2505 (return) [ The Greeks feared to name Pluto directly and mentioned
him by one of many descriptive titles, such as ‘Host of Many’: compare
the Christian use of O DIABOLOS or our ‘Evil One’.]
2506 (return) [ Demeter chooses the lowlier seat, supposedly as being
more suitable to her assumed condition, but really because in her
sorrow she refuses all comforts.]
2507 (return) [ An act of communion—the drinking of the potion here
described—was one of the most important pieces of ritual in the
Eleusinian mysteries, as commemorating the sorrows of the goddess.]
2508 (return) [ Undercutter and Woodcutter are probably popular names
(after the style of Hesiod’s ‘Boneless One’) for the worm thought to be
the cause of teething and toothache.]
2509 (return) [ The list of names is taken—with five additions—from
Hesiod, _Theogony_ 349 ff.: for their general significance see note on
that passage.]