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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...and 182-4, an Hyg. xiv; schol. on Ap. Rhod. i. 45), which is explamed by Tzetzes (C/nl. ii. 41) as meaning that they were ' gubernatores celeberrimi ', who could be trusted not to run their ship upon the rocks or on shore. In Apollonius (ii. 555-6) Euphemus takes his stand in the fo'c's'le and there sends forth the dove (like Noah in the Ark) to show the way through the Clashers (561-2); and later on (588-9) we find him walking up and down encouraging the rowers. It is partly owing to his exhortations and partly to the presence of mind of Tiphys that the Argo manages to get through the Symplegades with comparatively little damage. See note on l. 462. Burmann, Cat. of the Argonauts, s.v. Euphemus, med.-ad fin. 'He (Euphemus), as well as Orion, is celebrated for the power of walking upon the waves, which the Scholiast interprets to signify that they were excellent mariners, who never suffered shipwreck ' (Noble). b ii. 894-8. //. ii. 237. d xxii, 2 and 34. 6 Od. i. 12. 25-7; Sat. ii. 1. 26-7. f Theb. vi. 327-9. e In the present passage. h Though not, I think, necessarily (iii. 14. 17-18). 1 'Polluci... CyUarum.. Propertius... et Virg. (sic)... attribuunt, quia nempe equus ille communis utrique ',-) and adds that their error may be excused on general grounds of poetic licence. Propertius, however, as far as I am aware, never mentions Cyllarus at all, and Vergil's mistake consists not in making that unfortunate nag the common property of both brothers, but in giving him to Pollux, whereas he really belonged to Castor. to both'; Cyllarus belonged exclusively to Castor, and the horse of Pollux was called Xanthus. The fact is that 'the great twin brethren' were so alike that the ancients did not take the trouble to distinguish between them, and they are even somet...
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