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. El. ii.]

[Footnote 1090: Thamyras.--Ver. 399. He was a Thracian poet, who challenged the Muses to sing, and, according to Homer, was punished with madness. Diodorus Siculus says that he lost his voice, while the Roman poets state that he lost his sight. Amoebeus was a famous lute-player of Athens.]

[Footnote 1091: Of Cos.--Ver. 401. See the Pontic Epistles,