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I read συνοαρίζοντας. The general reading συνερῶντας will hardly do here. Wyttenbach suggests συνεαρίζοντας.

18

What the διβολἰα was is not quite clear. I have supposed a jersey.

19

The women of Lemnos were very masterful. On one memorable occasion they killed all their husbands in one night. Thus the line of Ovid has almost a proverbial force, "Lemniadesque viros nimium quoque vincere norunt."—Heroides, vi. 53. Siebelis in his Preface to Pausanias, p. xxi, gives from an old Scholia a sort of excuse for the action of the women of Lemnos.

20

Probably the epilepsy. See Herodotus, iii. 33.

21

I take Wyttenbach's suggestion as to the reading here.

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