[sect. 2]
The pre-eminence of Argos in early times is an inference from
Homer, and even more from the Cyclic poems, e.g. the Thebais
and the Epigoni (cf. v. 67 n.). Hellas did not obtain its name till
after the Dorian invasion (cf. i. 58 nn.).
fo/rton. For the scene here described cf. Od. xv. 416 (Φοίνικες)
μυρί̓ ἄγοντες ἀθύρματα νηὶ μελαίνῃ.