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

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.

Probably the epilepsy. See Herodotus, iii. 33.

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

Compare Lucretius, i. 1-5.