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    W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus

    BOOK II

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    Commentary on Herodotus, Histories. book 2, chapter 49:section 1.

    XLIX. exêgêsamenos, ‘taught’; cf. katêgêsamenos inf.

    atrekeôs refers to whole clause, not to any special word; translate ‘to speak accurately’.

    sophistai: his descendants, e.g. Amphiaraus, and still more the Orphic teachers (cf. 81 n.) of Greece, e.g. Onomacritus.

    Melampus was placed in the fourth generation after Hellen. [p. 191] According to later writers he was an Egyptian or had travelled in Egypt; H. does not carry his rationalization of the myth so far.

    poieusi ta poieusi: an euphemism for the obscenities of the Dionysia, which Heraclitus (fr. 127) had called anaidestata.



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