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For the intercession of Pallas cf. Hom. Il. viii. 30 f., and for the identification of Fate with the will of Zeus i. 91 n.

πελάσσας: masculine because the god speaks through the Pythia. For the phrase ‘make as of steel’ cf. Hesiod, Ἔργα 431 γόμφοισι πελάσας, Aesch. Prom. Vinct. 155δέσμοις ἀλύτοις . . . πελάσας”, Pind. Pyth. iv. 227, Ol. i. 78.

Κέκροπος οὖρος: not the Acropolis (cf. c. 142), though it is called Κεροπία πέτρα (Eur. Ion 936) and Cecrops (viii. 44. 1) was buried in the Erechtheum, presumably in the Cecropeum, but the ‘border of Attica’, of which the hollow of Cithaeron is roughly the Western boundary (cf. ix. 39; v. 74. 2). The Pythia quite naturally names the boundary towards Delphi.

Τριτογενεῖ: cf. iv. 180. 5 n.

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