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4 --Latona's son: i.e. Apollo.
5 --King of men: Agamemnon.
6 --Brother kings: Menelaus and Agamemnon.
7 --Smintheus an epithet taken from sminthos, the Phrygian name for a
mouse, was applied to Apollo for having put an end to a plague of
mice which had harassed that territory. Strabo, however, says, that
when the Teucri were migrating from Crete, they were told by an
oracle to settle in that place, where they should not be attacked by
the original inhabitants of the land, and that, having halted for
the night, a number of field-mice came and gnawed away the leathern
straps of their baggage, and thongs of their armour. In fulfilment
of the oracle, they settled on the spot, and raised a temple to
Sminthean Apollo. Grote, "History of Greece," i. p. 68, remarks that
the "worship of Sminthean Apollo, in various parts of the Troad and
its neighboring territory, dates before the earliest period of
Aeolian colonization."
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8 --Cilla, a town of Troas near Thebe, so called from Cillus, a
sister of Hippodamia, slain by OEnomaus.
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