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Part 24

3302 (return) [ Identical with the _Returns_, in which the Sons of Atreus occupy the most prominent parts.]

3401 (return) [ This Artemisia, who distinguished herself at the battle of Salamis (Herodotus, vii. 99) is here confused with the later Artemisia, the wife of Mausolus, who died 350 B.C.]

3402 (return) [ _i.e._ the fox knows many ways to baffle its foes, while the hedge-hog knows one only which is far more effectual.]

3403 (return) [ Attributed to Homer by Zenobius, and by Bergk to the _Margites_.]

3501 (return) [ _i.e._ ‘monkey-men’.]

3601 (return) [ Lines 42-52 are intrusive; the list of vegetables which the Mouse cannot eat must follow immediately after the various dishes of which he does eat.]

3602 (return) [ lit. ‘those unable to swim’.]

3603 (return) [ This may be a parody of Orion’s threat in Hesiod, “Astronomy”, frag. 4.]

3701 (return) [ sc. the riddle of the fisher-boys which comes at the end of this work.]

3702 (return) [ The verses of Hesiod are called doubtful in meaning because they are, if taken alone, either incomplete or absurd.]

3703 (return) [ _Works and Days_, ll. 383-392.]

3704 (return) [ _Iliad_ xiii, ll. 126-133, 339-344.]

3705 (return) [ The accepted text of the _Iliad_ contains 15,693 verses; that of the _Odyssey_, 12,110.]

3706 (return) [ _Iliad_ ii, ll. 559-568 (with two additional verses).]

3707 (return) [ _Homeric Hymns_, iii.]

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