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The beautiful tale of Glaucus, with its high moral, is strangely placed in the mouth of a man who had reached the throne by corruption of the Pythia (ch. 65), and who was himself corrupt (ch. 72). Neither this nor the inexactitude of the parallel between Glaucus and the Athenians induces H. to sacrifice so good a story.


προφάσιας εἷλκον: perhaps ‘lengthen out excuses’, but ‘drag in by the hair of the head’ would suit Arist. Lys. 726πάσας τε προφάσεις ὥστ᾽ ἀπελθεῖν οἴκαδε ἕλκουσιν”.

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