Ai. 699 the Laurentian gives κρνώσια,
while most of the other Mss. have
κνώσσια.---ἰμερτὰν πόλιν. Greek legend
associated the embellishment of Cnosus
with works wrought by Daedalus for
Minos and his family. The recent ex-
cavations have shown that Minoan
Cnosus was a seat of rulers, whose
palaces were adorned with works of an
advanced art, at a period which Mr Arthur
Evans would place ¢. 2500—1500 B.C.
14 The ms. has ETPQIITA, the final A


having been made from A. We must
therefore read Evpemuibas. The normal
patronymic would be Εὐρωπίδης : but the
irregular formation, prompted by metrical
convenience, is analogous to that of
Χαλκωδοντιάδης (//. 2. 541) for Χαλκω-
δοντίδης, and Τελαμωνιάδης (ὁ. 9. 623)
for Τελαμωνίδης: see ἢ. on Soph. PA.
1333:.
15 δεκάτῳ. Before this word, two or
three letters are lost in the Ms. These
may have been the -as or -das of Edpw-
πιάδας, carried over from v.15. Another
possibility is that τῷ, ἐν, or σὺν had been
interpolated before δεκάτῳ. The division
between the first and second verses of the
strophe and of the antistrophe is wrong
throughout in the MS.: see on féxart in


v. 6.
Εἰὐξάντιον : see Appendix.
17 Kenyon supplies κούρα: Blass,
γύμφα. The fact that κόραν has occurred
in 7 is of no weight; Bacchylides, like
other Greek poets of his age, is not





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to whom he gave the rocky land, ere he sailed away to Cnosus,


lovely city,


that king born of Europa.
And in the tenth month the maiden ant. 6.
with beautiful locks bore Euxantius, to be lord of the glorious


isle,
. . *


beeeee the daughters (of Damon) had changed (their old abode) str, 7.
for the city steeped in sunshine.
