Abstract
IN HIS ODE for Theron of Acragas, Olympian 2, Pindar describes a moment of great grief in the history of his native city, with which Theron too claimed an ancestral tie. In this passage (lines 38-45), Pindar tells how the Fury slew for Oedipus his yevog a&@iov (line 42). This adjective occurs only here in Pindar. The scholiast explains it as yevvacov ta iokXetlxa (schol. 01. 2.75 = Drachmann 1.80), which is clearly approbative, and this view has been echoed by many interpreters.2 It comes as a surprise, therefore, to read the following gloss in the
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