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42 When Deinon of Tarentum, a brave soldier, was general, his fellow-citizens voted to reject a certain proposal of his. When the herald reported the prevailing majority, he held up his right hand and said, But this is stronger. This is Theophrastus’sFrag. 133 (ed. Wimmer). version of the story; but Apollodorus has a supplementary version, that when the herald of the Tarentines proclaimed, These are in the majority Deinon said, But these are better! and validated the vote of the minority.

43 For what reason was the city of the Ithacans called Alalcomenae?

43 Because Anticleia, while yet a virgin, was violated by Sisyphus and conceived Odysseus. This is related by several authorities cf. Sophocles, Philoctetes, 417, with Jebb’s note; Frag. 567 (ed. Pearson), with the note.; but IsterMüller, Frag. Hist. Graec. i. p. 426. of Alexandria in his Commentaries has in addition recorded that when Anticlea had been given in marriage to Laërtes and was being conducted to his home, she gave birth to Odysseus near the Alalcomenium in Boeotia. And for this reason, as though referring the name to that of a mother-city, he states that the city in Ithaca acquired its name.

44 Who were the solitary eaters in Aegina?