Note 437 — THE LIBATION-POURERS
E. H. (Edward Hayes) Plumptre translation
The story of the Lemnian women is told by Herodotos (vi. 138). They rose up against their husbands and put them all to death; and the deed passed into a proverb, so that all great crimes were spoken of as Lemnian. This guilt is that alluded to in Strophe III.