Note 304 — Chapter VI · THE ÆOLIDS, OR SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF ÆOLUS.
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Theocrit. xvi. 104.—
Ὦ ᾿Ετεόκλειοι θύγατρες θεαὶ, αἱ Μινύειον ᾿Ορχόμενον φιλέοισαι, ἀπεχθόμενόν ποκα Θήβαις.
The scholiast gives a sense to these words much narrower than they really bear. See Diodôr. xv. 79; Pausan. ix. 15. In the oration which Isokratês places in the mouth of a Platæan, complaining of the oppressions of Thêbes, the ancient servitude and tribute to Orchomenos is cast in the teeth of the Thêbans (Isokrat. Orat. Plataic. vol. iii. p. 32, Auger).