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 Tola Tts" O.V TravaTTOTixov eov irepi vr^mov via 

 fivdeladat <j)airj • tov S' ovk dXeyovra SacfjOLVols 23 

 SaLvvadat aTOjjLareaaLV a/xetSea TraiSos" ihrjTVv. 

 Zeu TTorep, oaaov etfyv ^i^Aoto Travdypiov r^rop. 

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 he^trepf] 8e (jiipeiv dSaiubdvrivov wTraaas dop. 24 



ov TTalSag nqprjoe (jyiXovs yXvKepolai roKevaiv, 

 ovx drdpovs TTrjovs re p-oXcuv, ovk oiSev ofxaiyiovs, 

 OTTTTorav dpyaXeos re Kal daneros dvrL^oX-qarj . 

 Kelvos Kal TTpoTrdpoidev eoicriv effycoTrXtae Traialv 

 avrovs T^pbtdeov; Kal dp.vpLOvas r]pLideaivas, 241 



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" When Hippolytus was falsely accused by his step- 

 mother Phaedra, his father Theseus pronounced a curse 

 on him which led to his death. Apollod. Epif. i. 18; 

 Eur. Jlippol. 



* His wife Ino tried to kill her step-children, Phrixus and 

 Helle, who escaped on the Ram of the Golden Fleece. 

 Apollod. i. 9. 



■= Philomela and Procne were daughters of Pandion, king 

 of Athens. Procne married Tereus, king of Thrace. Tereus 

 insulted Philomela and, lest she should reveal his guilt, cut 

 out her tongue. But Philomela depicted her misfortune on 

 a tapestry which she sent to Procne. Procne killed her son 

 Itylus and served him up as food to his father Tereus. 

 Tereus was turned into a Hoopoe, Procne into a Nightingale, 

 Philomela into a Swallow. Apollod. iii, 14 ; Ov. M. vi. 4:36 if. 



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