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H.'s figure ‘240’ is probably based on a calculation of generations.


Μεταποντῖνοι. The cult of Apollo at Metapontum is reflected in its coins (Head, H. N. p. 76, fig. 36); the god is shown as δαφνηφόρος or with a laurel tree before him (cf. δάφναι ἑστᾶσι inf.).

τότε: after ‘his second disappearance’ he had come to Italy. The ‘raven’ was sacred to Apollo (Ael. H. A. i. 48) as a prophetic bird (cf. Hor. Odes, iii. 27. 11oscen corvus”, the ‘crow’).


ἐς Δελφούς. For Delphi as the controller of cults and canonizer cf. Farnell, G. C. iv. 206-8.


The ἄγαλμα is the ‘altar’ of § 2; H. clearly speaks as an eyewitness. One of the laurels at any rate was of brass (Theop. fr. 182; F. H. G. i. 309).

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