Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 646
urn. Hell. Stud. 1890 xi. 227, after citing Apollod. 2. 7. 7Kaiofi^vi]s dt rijs irvpas Xiyerai vtcpos viroarav ixerd. /3pocr^j avrbu «s ovptxvbv dvair^/j.\(/ai,shrewdly observes: One might say of him (sc. Herakles), he came in a storm and wentin a storm, and if that view of his life was current in… … 518 Pyre-extinguishing rain the Euripidean Alkmene. Indeed, in another play Plautus actuallyuses Euripides title as a synonym for a prodigious storm1, andmakes Labrax threaten to burn alive Palaestra and Ampelisca whohave taken refuge on the altar of Venus2. Accordingly we may without reservation…
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