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Myths of the Dipolieia: Thaulon 597

And lastly, when the poet goes on to tell he

low

Heralds apart beneath an oak made ready
A feast and sacrificed a mighty ox1,

Agallis has once more a local interpretation: ' Here first, they say,
aulon sacrificed an ox after his exile2.' Agallis, then, was aware
at Thaulon had been in exile—a point in which his tale recalls
at of Sopatros3. Further, the whole context shows that she con-
nected Thaulon with Eleusis and the harvest of the Eleusinian
" a'n. And, since her allusion to him comes in by way of comment
n the action of the Homeric kerykes or ' heralds,' it is highly
Probable that she regarded him as a member of the great
kfeusinian clan Ktrykes.

indeed, thanks to Agfallis, it seems possible to define Thaulon's
to the Kerykes even more closely. We have already seen
^a three families belonging to this clan—the Bontypoi, the
_^ntriddai, and the Daitroi—performed the rites of the Athenian
'Polieia. If Thaulon, as Asrallis states, was the first man to
•nee an ox, he must have been, as A. Mommsen4 surmised, the
witfSt0r °f the Boutypoi. In short, the Bontypoi are to be identified
the Thaulonidai, a noble clan resident at Athens5. This
identic

• tlon> in which L. Deubner6 concurs, is supported by a
ab US anC* aPParent'y mutilated gloss of Hesychios7: 'Boutypon,
ci as5,at Athens <on which stood the Boutypos> appointed by the
an Thaulonidai.'

*ts PuriS'^ sa' 'nS ' The only interest of the interpolation is its obvious Attic origin.

1 -#18 "S t0 SUpply for ^Mt"' line 5?I^ an °t>ject-'
^H-<t>eirov ' '^8 f. K-rjpvKes 5' airdvevBev virb Spvt daira irlvovro, \ fjovv 8' Upeiuavra fiiyav

^ustath

e^0eis, sc^ y" 111 P- 1156, 59 5i6rt TrpuTov (K€i, (patriv, Z$vae fiovv QolXwv (sic) tpvyad-
^''aitio\vit° ^ ^ ^K*'&* vpi'Tot I8v<re {Sovv Qa&kuv tpvyadevBels.

tllat insertio W°Uld emen<1 the reading of schol. T. into <puyaSev6eis <Ji! avrb>. But

3 Supr^ resemblance of Thaulon to Sopatros.

6 Bo. °,P' 590 f- 4 Mommsen Feste d. Stadt A then p. S21 f.

6 L. rj ai,Awi,'oai- yevos iBaytvwv 'Xd-qvqai.

kultis*e/So" .r Attische F"te Berlin 1932 p. 161 'Jedenfalls sind die Thauloniden als
a'S ^er )3ou V*VVot §es'chert; aus ihnen erwuchs mit Notwendigkeit der Eponymos Thaulon

7 HesycJ^r 'ler atioIoSischen Legende.'

^•), for w,j • 0VTVV0"' vuBfiTtv '' KQ-qvqaui i/cake'ero, tic tou OaiAwWSwi' ytvovs KaffiffTdfievos
V?9^" 'Ae"' ^' loePffer Attische Geneatogie Berlin 1889 p. 156 proposed Boirn/TroK•

j3"0* ?kttlvi ■ 1,1 tlle Rhein. Mus. 1897 lii. 198 improved upon this by reading <o5 t6i>
t"e b0(]y of t°j OVT^os i>. But he wrongly supposed that wvBp.^v was a pit into which
Tfyttji> 16 striclceii ox was flunS" AdoPting von Prott's insertion, I should rather
Deubner 0? *Ve been a base like that in use at Stratonikeia (supra p. 568 fig. 385).
""-""flio-Td^,,^- Ctt' P- 161 prefers the suggestion of M. Schmidt that the words 'k9ipn\<ju>
are properly the end of the next gloss, which should read fiovrvTcoi- 0 fiodv