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History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12)

Note 498 — Chapter XI · ATTIC LEGENDS AND GENEALOGIES.

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See the epigram of Krinagoras, Antholog. Pal. vol. ii. p. 144; ep. xv. ed. Brunck. and Kallimach. Frag. 40.

Ἀείδει δ᾽ (Kallimachus) Ἑκάλης τε φιλοξείνοιο καλιὴν, Καὶ Θησεῖ Μαραθὼν οὓς ἐπέθηκε πόνους.

Some beautiful lines are preserved by Suidas, v. Ἐπαύλια, περὶ Ἑκάλης θανούσης (probably spoken by Thêseus himself, see Plutarch, Theseus, c. 14).

Ἴθι, πρηεῖα γυναικῶν, Τὴν ὁδὸν, ἣν ἀνίαι θυμαλγέες οὐ περόωσιν· Πόλλακι σεῖ᾽, ὦ μαῖα, φιλοξείνοιο καλιῆς Μνησόμεθα· ξυνὸν γὰρ ἐπαύλιον ἔσκεν ἅπασι.

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