CYNEGETICA, II. 110-128 



his labours, drove of old from Erytheia," what time 

 he fought with Geryoneiis beside the Ocean and 

 slew him amid the crags ; since he was doomed to 

 fulfil yet another labour, not for Hera nor at the 

 behest of Eurystheus,''but for his comrade Archippus,* 

 lord of holy Pella. For aforetime all the plain by 

 the foot of Emblonus was flooded ; since evermore 

 in great volume rushed Orontes in liis eagerness, 

 forgetting the sea and burning -with desire of the 

 dark-eyed nymph, the daughter of Ocean. He 

 lingered amid the heights and he covered the fertile 

 earth, unwilhng to forgo his hopeless love of 

 Mehboea. With mountains on either side was he 

 encircled round, mountains that on either hand 

 leaned their heads together. From the East came 

 the lofty form of Diocleium, and from the West the 

 left horn of Emblonus, and in the midst himself 

 raging in the plains, ever waxing and drawing nigh 

 the walk, flooding with his waters that mainland 

 at once and island,'' mine own city. Therefore was 

 the son of Zeus destined straightway mth club and 



else mentioned. The schol. on 109 has : ots 'HpaKXijs ddXQv 

 ■rpoTepov i^ 'F,pvdfias iKOfitffev, tov Trjpi'dfa dveXiIiv, ore 5-fj jcot 

 'Apx^'irT(fj II^Wt/s 7)-y€p.bvi (0i\os 5' &pa ol Kai avvrjdrjs 6 'Apx- 

 ixiros) S.d\ov {KTeXfiv i/jieWef ovSiv dTLfibrepov <-^> 6 Ei'piu^ei'y 

 . . . iiriTaTTev. 6 fdp roi tt)v 'Avtioxov Trapappeusv 'Opovnjs 

 Xi/jLVJiv vpofffKKavdeis Kai /jLedvuiv ttjs vvp.(pT)^ tQ Ipuri (Me\<,3ota 

 T^ vviKpTj rb ivopxi, 'ilKeavbs ry \inyr] Trar-qp) ttJs evl ddXar Tat> 

 fiiy eiTfXddeTO, Specrt 5e Kai weSiois ' xepieXtftj'afe, vvy fiiy tov 

 'E/M^Xdjubv (6pos 5' ovTos) Kai toi>j aiToO Karaiyi^uv irpowodas, 

 ipri 5i irpbs yrjf €KTpeirb/nevos, Kai ravTTjv iiriKaXi'irTUjy rip pevfiart, 

 iviore 8k Kai fieaos twv bpiuiv avpop-eyos dtx<p6iv 'Efi^Xuvov Kai 

 AiOKXeiov, tQiv i^ eio Kai 5v(Tp.ij}v €irLKeKv<pbrujv dXXrjXois, Kai 

 iravToiios bid Tr\v ipwfievTju yivofxevoz, dPOiSaivwv re Kai dva- 

 KaxXd^uiv, Kai veXd^uiv rots Tet'^fO't Kai ttjv els XeppovT^aov Si- 

 f(7X'»7MaTt(rAte'''77«' TrbXif ifxT\v irepiKXi'i'wv ti2 xibari,. 

 ** i.e. Chersonese ; cf. 100 n. 



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