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The epistle of Othea to Hector

Note 247 — ERRATA.

Stephen Scrope translation

The scene of the story was in Cyprus. Cidonie (Cydonie, H.) apparently comes from a misunderstanding of Ovid, who says of Pygmalion, “Collocat hanc stratis concha Sidonide tinctis” (Met. x. 267).

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