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ἀγόντων Κορινθίων: cf. ch. 36, and for the connexion with Corinth ch. 92. 2 n.

ἤδη ... ἤκουσα gives a variant discredited by the author; cf. iv. 77. 1; vii. 35. 1, 53. 3.

ἐπιβατεύων, ‘relying on’; cf. iii. 63. 3, 67. 2; vi. 65. 4.

ἐξελάμβανε is correlative to ἐκδίδοναι, and the whole expression recalls ἐργολάβος, and implies one who works for hire as a daylabourer; cf. Hom. Od. xvii. 383. Such soothsaying for hire was viewed with contempt. For ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα, round about all Hellas, cf. Od. xvii. 386, xxiv. 201, and especially xvi. 63 πολλὰ βροτῶν ἐπὶ ἄστεα δινηθῆναι.

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