Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 314
e as follows^: Lysimachos of Alexandreia ^ in When Oidipous died, his friends thought to bury him in Thebes. But theThebans, holding that he was an impious person on account of the misfortuneswhich had befallen him in earlier times, prevented them from so doing. Theycarried him therefore to a… … Fig. 967. from their land. The friends, perplexed by these occurrences, took him up andbrought him to Eteonos. Wishing to bury him secretly, they interred him bynight in the sanctuary of Demeter—for they did not know the locality. Whenthe facts transpired, the inhabitants of Eteonos asked the god…
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