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ERRATA.

P. 5, note, v. 8, 1. 55, for vμwv read üμvwv.

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14, note, v. 64, l. 5, for definite pron. read indef. pron.

,, 31, text, v. 84, for aπo read ȧrò, and alter lemma

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30, for oix. read rapoix.

64, text, v. 53, for karaßás read κaтaßàs, with comma at end of verse 91, note, v. 38, l. 12, for 90 read 20

95, note, v. 7 (end) for πρόσφορος, read προσ- φόρος.

121, text, v. 10, for Tepâσai read repάo ai

132, text, v. 32, for Пoσeidáwvi r' 'Iσ0. read Пoσeidáwvi 'Iσ0.

Sundry additions to and corrections of the notes of the earlier volume have been incidentally introduced in the following pages.

ADDENDA.

Nem. x. 1. The following extract from Professor Jebb's paper on Pindar is apposite.

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“I may give a few instances, by way of showing how Pindar and the sculptors were working in the same field. The Gigantomachia (Pindar, Nem. i. 67) adorned the pediment of the Megarian Treasury' at Olympia; next to Zeus, Poseidon, and Ares, the chief figure was Heracles, whom Pindar also makes prominent. The wedding of Heracles with Hebe (Pind. ib. and Isthm. iii. 78) was the subject of a relief (of Pindar's age) on the low wall round the mouth of a well (TeploтóμLOV) found at Corinth. Pindar may have lived to see the eastern pediment of the temple of Zeus at Olympia, by Paeonius, though not the western, by Alcamenes; the subject of the eastern was the chariot-race of Pelops and Oenomaus (Pind. Ol. i. 76); of the western, the war of the Centaurs with the Lapithaе (Aаπiðâv vжеρóπλwv, Pyth. ix. 14). Pindar's mention of the 'fair-throned Hours' (evlpovo pai, Pyth. ix. 62) reminds us that the Heraion at Olympia possessed a chryselephantine group of the Horae seated on thrones, by Smilis of Aegina, whose date has been referred to the earlier half of the sixth century. Hiero of Syracuse, who was engaged in war while suffering from gout and stone, is compared by Pindar

with Philoctetes, ἀσθενεῖ μὲν χρωτὶ βαίνων, ἀλλὰ μοιρίδιον ἦν (Pyth. i. 55). At that very time Syracuse contained the famous statue of the limping Philoctetes, by Pythagoras of Rhegium, of which Pliny says that those who looked at it seemed to feel the pain (xxxiv. 59). Even if we hesitate to believe that the sculptor intended an allusion to Hiero1, we may well suppose that Pindar's comparison was suggested by the work of Pythagoras. Pindar touches on a legend which represented Heracles in combat with Apollo and two other gods (Ol. ix. 30 f). A similar contest between Heracles and Apollo was the subject of a group executed in Pindar's time (about 485 B.C.) by three artists of Corinth—Diyllus, Amyclaeus, and Chionis-and offered by the Phocians in the temple at Delphi (Paus. x. 13, 7). The religious reserve with which Pindar alludes to the strife between Heracles and the god (Ol. ix. 35, áñó μοi λóyov | τοῦτον, στόμα, ῥῖψον) has led critics to infer that the story was one of the iepol Móyou pertaining to mysteries2. His reticence probably reflects the tone of the Delphic priesthood in regard to the closely kindred subject which he must have seen in their temple."

1 See Watkiss Lloyd, History of Sicily, p. 315; and A. S. Murray, History of Greek

Sculpture, p. 203.

Cp. Paley on Iliad v. 396.

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DESCRIPTION OF

ILLUSTRATIVE COINS (SILVER).

From the British Museum Educational Series (Catalogue).

1. III. B. 28. Of Thebes. Obv. Boeotian shield. Rev. OE

(=Ɖeißýwv). Infant Hêrakles strangling serpents. Fourth century B.C. Wt. 187 grs. Cf. Nem. L. 39-47.

Obv.

2. II. C. 16. Of Akragas. field horned head of a young river-god. End of fifth century B.C. Wt. 267-8 grs.

Two eagles with hare. In [Rev. AKPATANTINON.] Cf. Nem. III. 80, 81.

Obv. Al. Land tortoise

3. II. B. 24. Of Aegina (xedwvn). (symbol of Astartê, Phoenician goddess of commerce). Rev. Incuse square divided into five compartments, with N, I, and dolphin in the three whole squares. Earlier than B.C. 459. Wt. 189 grs.

Cf. Nem. VI. 66.

4. I. C. 25. Of Katana. [Obv. Man-headed bull (river-god); above, water-fowl; beneath, river-fish.] Rev. KATANAION (ІОИКАТANA). Winged Nikê with wreath in right hand moving quickly to the left. Before 480 B.C. Wt. 266-8 grs.

5. II. C. 28. [Obv. MEΣΣANION. Hare; beneath it dolphin.] Rev. 'Annun; winged Nikê about to crown charioteer. In exergue two dolphins. Fifth century B.C. Type adopted by Anaxilâos. Wt. 266-9 grs. Cf. OL. v. 3.

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