Sophocles Philoctetes 1461

mvp-comment-777-1 Λύκιόν τε ποτόν ¹ Λύκιον ² γλύκιον ³

mvp-comment-777-2 Traces of Apollo

in Lemnos are not surprising. From early times he had been worshipped under that title, not only in the valley of the Xanthus, but also in the Troad (cp. Il. 4. 101 , with Leaf's note). A gloss in Hesychius (s.v. ) points to a cognate worship of Apollo in the neighbouring islet of Chrysè. and may both alike be referred to , as designating the god of light. In actual Greek usage, while was usually connected with the idea of ( O. T. 203 n.), was chiefly associated with Lycia. But, instead of the title being derived thence, it is more likely that the country of the people once called Tremǐlae took its name from the cult of the . (Cp. Preller, I. 202.)

mvp-comment-777-3 It has been objected to the mention of

that at v. 717 Ph. was described as having only : but that was merely the conjecture of the Chorus. Cp. 21 .

1461. mvp-comment-970-1 Λύκιον] This, like ' Ἑρμαῖον supr., is probably a name actually associated with Lemnos, though we cannot pretend to know more than the Scholiast respecting its origin: ἢ οὕτω καλουμένη κρήνη ἐν Λήμνῳ Λυκίου ᾿Απόλλωνος, ἢ οἷον ἐν ἐρημίᾳ ὑπὸ λύκων πινόμενον. Possibly Sophocles himself could not have determined this.