28 ff. ἄλλαξαν θύγατρες. This is the
point at which the poet linked on his
myth—the story of Dexithea—to his
immediate theme, the victory of Argeius.
The family of Argeius evidently belonged
to the Cean town called Κορησσός or
Kopnola, which was on the coast, near


32 The letter after APIEI is lost in the rent of the MS., but a


the port of Iulis (Strabo x. 486: A.
Pridik De Ces rebus p.7). Ina fragment
belonging to an earlier part of this ode
(13 K.), one of Dexithea’s sisters proposes
that they shall leave their dpx πόλιν
for ἃ new abode by the sea, open to
the αὐγαῖς ἀελίου (see Appendix). A
local legend doubtless connected the
name Kopyoods with the migration of
the κόραι. It seems almost certain that
in the verses lost between 19 and 28 the
poet mentioned or indicated Κορησσός,
adding that it was so called, ‘decasse (or
after) the daughters (of Damon) ad
migrated to that sunny town. Thence
sprang Argeius,’ etc.
Babube v (found only here) probably
means ‘steeped in sunshine.’ evdeledos,
of which the Homeric sense is ‘ far-seen,’
appears to mean ‘sunny’ in Pind. P. Iv.
76 (as an epithet of Iolcus), and may have
that meaning in O. 1. 111 (as an epithet
of the Κρόνιον at Olympia). So the author
of the Hymn to Apollo (438) speaks of
Κρίσην εὐδείελον ἀμπελόεσσαν.
81 καρτερόχειρ, like θρασύχειρος in
II. 4, indicates that the victory of Argeius
was gained in boxing, or perhaps in the
pancration (boxing and wrestling).
