Note 50:1 — INTRODUCTION.[vii:1]
Andrew P. (Andrew Preston) Peabody translation
Or, “the home of the grasshopper”; for tettix (τέττιξ) means grasshopper. The oracle, as usual, was ambiguous. Calondas, alias Corax, is represented as not understanding it at first, but finding out afterward that a Cretan named Tettix had settled at Taenarus, or Taenarum, he inferred that his home was designated by the oracle.