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πόλιν ἐς πόλιν: communication by land in early times is always preferred to that by sea; this Bérard calls ‘Loi des Isthmes’ (Les Phén. dans l'Odys. i. 69-78). It may well be that the ‘sacred way’ to Delos lay on both sides of the Euripus, for, beside the Euboic route implied by H., there was a shrine of Apollo at Delium, and his oldest shrine in Attica was in the Marathonian Tetrapolis, which was especially connected with the θεωρία to Delos (Schol. to Oed. Col. 1047).

ἐκλιπεῖν: intrans., ‘is passed over’; Andros was the home of a different cult, that of Dionysus.

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