OPPIAN 



vac fxrjv cuSe A.dK(x)veg i7Ti,(f>pova jxrjriaavro 

 alai (f)LXaLs dXoyois, ore yacrrepa KVfxaivovai- 

 ypdi/javreg TTLvaKeaai rreXas deaav ayAaa KaXXr), 360 

 Tovs Trdpos dcrrpdi/javras iv ■qp.epioLaiv €(/)rj^ovg, 

 Ntpea /cat NdpKidoov ivpLpLeXirjv 6' 'TdKivdov, 

 KaoTO/aa t' evKopvdov /cat Ap,VKOcf)6vov TloXv- 



SeVK-TjV, 



Tj'Cdeovs re veovs, rot t' iv piaKdpeaaiv dyr^rol, 

 Oot^ov Sa(f)voK6fX7jv /cat Kiacro^opov ^lovvaov 365 

 at o CTTLTepTTovTaL TToXviqparov ethos Ihovaai, 

 TLKTOvatv re KaXovs iirl /caAAet 7T€TTrr]VLaL. 



Tdcraa p^ev dp,<f)'' ImroLaLV drdp Kard^iqdi, <f>iXri 



(f)pT]V, 



OLpov enl aKvXdKwv roaaoi 8' eTTt Trdai Kvveaaiv 

 k^ox dpl^TjXoL, p,dXa t' dypevr-ijpGL p^eXovrai, 370 



Ylaioves, Avoovlol, Kdpes, QprjiKes, "l^-qpes, 

 ApKdSes, 'Apyetot, Aa/ceSat/xdvtot, Teyerjrai, 

 Saypo/xarat, KeArot, K.prJTes, Mdyvr]res , 'A/xopyot, 



<» Next to Achilles the handsomest Greek at Troy : Horn. 

 11. ii. 671, 



*" A beautiful youth of Thespiae who, for hopeless love of 

 his own reflection, died and was turned into the flower 

 which bears his name : Ov. M. iii. 341 ; Paus. ix. 31. 7. 



" A beautiful Spartan youth, accidentailj' slain by Apollo : 

 from his blood sprang the *' hyacinth." See n. on Colluthus 

 248. Cf. Apollod. iii. 10. 3: Paus. iii. 1, 3, iii. 19. 5; 

 Nicand. T. 90-2; Ov. M. x. 162, xiii. 394 if. 



<* Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri, sons of Zeus 

 (Tyndareus) and Leda : Hom. //. iii. 237. 



' King of the Bebryces, slain by Pollux : Apollod. i. 9. 

 20 ; Theocr. xxii. 27 ; Ap. Rh. ii. 1 ; Val. Fl. iv. 99. 



f Cf. generally Xen. C. 3 ff. ; Arr. C. 2 ff. ; Poll. v. 37 ff. ; 

 Geop. xix. Iff.; A. 574 a 16 ff. and passim ; Verg. G. iii. 

 404 ff. ; Varr. ii. 9 ; Plin. viii. 142 ff. ; Colum. vii. 12 ; 

 Gratt. 150 ff.; Nemes. 103 ff. » Poll. v. 46 f. 



* i.e. Italian, including the vividus Umber of Verg. Aen. 

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