INTRODUCTION 



Kij^Aat, TrepKai, KU)f3ioi, <f>i'KiSes, aX<^7/crTiKd^. E.M. s. 

 d\<fni(rr/]^ repeats Ajwllodorus in Athen. 281 e as 

 quoted above ; cf. E.M. x. ^j/AvTepuoji- on tu Xonra 

 f((>a opov ^X^i Tjys /ii'^ews ttji' crvXXi]\pii', avraL Se def 

 Sib €K Tov ei'ai'Ttov ol di-Spa dX.<f>^j<TTai Aeyovrat oi 

 KaTw<f>€p€is, Kara fieTU(f)opav aTro twi' t^^^vwv dA</)?/o"Tai 

 yap €i8os ix^vos. Hesych. *. dA^rjcrTts' t'x^vos et'^os. 

 In Homer dA^r/o-rai is an obscure epithet of men 

 in general, but in later Greek a bad association 

 seems to have attached to dA<^drw and its derivatives, 

 perhaps through an idea that irapOkvoL fiX<f)€crif3oiat 

 (Honi. //. xviii. 593, H. Aphr. 119) meant — to quote 

 Dugald Dalgetty — "such quae quaestum corporibus 

 faciehant, as we said of Jean Drochiels at Marischal 

 Q)llege"'»; cf. Lycophrou 1 393 tt)? (Mestra) -n-avro- 

 fiopfjiov f3ao-(Tdpas Aa/i,7rovpt8os | roKrjo'i (Erysichthon), 

 7j T dAc^atcri rat? KaB' ■)]p.kpav | f^oi'Trnvav dXdaivicrKev 

 aK/iaiav Trarpo'S. 



The fish intended is one of the Wrasses (they had 

 the repute of lasciviousness, cf'. Epicharm. ap. Athen. 

 305 c [see too 287 b, E.M. s. (ie.p(ipdi\ /3afx/3pa86i€^ re 

 Kui Ki^Aai Aayoi SpaKovres t dAKtyuoi, where perhaps 

 Ady vot should be read : cj\ ki\Xi^<d), such as Creni- 

 labrtLS melops, the Gold-sinny or Corkwing. 



2. The reading of the mss. and schol. ds ff 

 would make d? refer to ^I'K-tScs. So the Schol. (fivKiScs' 

 at AaTTtvat. tovto 8 enre ctkiotttiov tov yviaLKtLtSi]. 

 (^VKiSas etTrev evravda o -jronqTr^s d^Xoiv XoiSoprjcrat 

 Tiva €vvov)(^ov (f)VKapi(ovTa (i e. rouging) rd? Trapeids 

 avTov. r}v S' 6 ei'i'ov^os ovtos ov XoLSoprja-ai dkXti o 

 iroir^TTjs, ws lotKfv, o KaTaAaAiycras Toi' Xyi^a-'iXaov 

 Toi' Trarepa tov ttoit/jtov ets tov fiacriXka ^e(i?]pov, a»s 

 fiTTOfiev, oTi KaTe<f)p6v-ijcrev 6 'AyTjaiAaos k^eXdelv tts 



" Scott, Legend of Montrose^ c. ix. 



