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ἐξηγησάμενος, ‘taught’; cf. κατηγησάμενος inf.

ἀτρεκέως refers to whole clause, not to any special word; translate ‘to speak accurately’.

σοφισταί: his descendants, e.g. Amphiaraus, and still more the Orphic teachers (cf. 81 n.) of Greece, e.g. Onomacritus.

Melampus was placed in the fourth generation after Hellen. According to later writers he was an Egyptian or had travelled in Egypt; H. does not carry his rationalization of the myth so far.

ποιεῦσι τὰ ποιεῦσι: an euphemism for the obscenities of the Dionysia, which Heraclitus (fr. 127) had called ἀναιδέστατα.

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