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Book Ten<br />

rider at 15.680, Triaupas auvaeipeTca ITTTTOUS. This is not the same as yoking<br />

the horses to a chariot. For dceipeiv of harnessing an animal cf. Traprjopos, 'a<br />

tracehorse'; it is, as it were, hung onto the chariot, as Schulze, QE 420,<br />

explained the metaphor.<br />

500 TO£CO: the poet presumably has in mind a longish 'self bow, or<br />

are we to imagine him using the loose bowstring as a whiplash? That is<br />

unlikely.<br />

502 poi^Ticrev: 'hiss' (of a snake, Ap. Rhod. 4.129). irupauaKcov: see<br />

478n. A complement must be supplied, 'indicating'

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