OPPIAN 



/cat Bt] ol x^oeprj fiev eTnjvOee aeA/xaat [xlXa^, 

 TTpvjxvrjv S' (hpair] eXivos^ /cat Ktaaos epeTrrov 

 Kai Kcv VTTep ttovtolo KV^iareov dcmaXirjeg 

 SelfxarL hatp,ovia) ireTrrriores , dAAa Trdpoidev 

 is yalav hopv KeXae- Trpos FjV^oltjv 8e yvvaiKes 26 

 7}S €TT ^ ApLoraioLO Oeov KardyovTO (f)€povarat, 

 oad^ VTTarov fxev evaiev opos^ K.apvr)(nv^ vtt* dvrpco* 

 fivpia S' dypavXov ^lottjv eStSa^aro (f)a>rcbv 



TTpOJTOS TTOLpieVlOV^ tSpUCTttTO, TTpCOTOS eKelvOS 



KapTTOVs dypidSos XiTTaprjs edXn/jcv iXatr^s, i^, . 



Kal rap,ia(x> rrpdiTos ydXa TT-q^aro, /cat ttotI (Tip.fiXovs 

 e/c Bpvos deipas dyavds iveKXeicre pLeXiaaas. 



^ (re\iPos {-ov GI) Mss. : corr. Brodaeus. 

 ^ opoj Editor : 6pei mss, 



* Kapvycriv Editor : Kal pvricnv CDEF : Kai poirjaiu AB : 

 Ktti poijcnv GLM : Kepdea'cnv Turnebus. * &vTpi^ : Afrpov mss. 

 ^ -KQLixiviov Schneider : iroiuevlixiv mss. 



» Similar miracles take place when Dionysus is carried 

 off bv Tyrrhenian pirates ; Hom. H. vii. 35 ff. ; Nonn. xlv. 

 105 ff. ; Apollod. iii. 5. 3; Philostr. Imag. i. 19 ; Ov. M. iii. 

 577 ff, * Sm'ilax aspera. 



" No doubt the vine is intended. Nonn. xii. 299, speak- 

 ing of the vine, has dypLas rj^wwaa iroXvyvafxirToicn creXivois 

 {cf. Dion. P. 1157 ^XiKfs re ■woKvyva.^i.trTris eKivoio), whence it 

 might be argued that Oppian used aeXivos for vine-tendril. 

 But (1) (xiXivos (for aeKivov) seems not to occur; (2) the 

 penult oi (T€\lvov is long (except A. P. vii. 621. 2). 



"* Find. N, ix. 27 iv yap dai,uoploi(n (pbSoLS <pe&yovTi Kai 

 TraiSes deCiv. 



' S. of Apollo and Cyrene, patron of all rural life, of 

 flocks and herds, hunting, bee-keeping, etc. Find. P. ix. 

 59 ff. ; Nonn. v. 229 ff„ xiii. 253 ff. ; Died. iv. 81 t ; Verg. 

 G. i. 14, iv. 315 ff. When Ceos was suffering from pestilence 

 owing to the heat of the Dog-star, Aristaeus went there 

 and built an altar to Zeus Icmaeus, i.e. Zeus as God of 

 Moisture, and established an annual sacrifice to Zeus and 

 Sirius on the hills of the island. Ever after Zeus caused 



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