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METOPES OF THE TEMPLE AT DELPHI. 211

that date. The same may be said of the Metopes, to five of which
Euripides distinctly alludes in the same chorus. The subjects of these
were, (1) Heracles, Iolaus, and the Lernaan Hydra? (2) Bellcroplion
and the Chinuzra ;s (3) Pallas brandishing the gorgoncion,' the fierce-
eyed shield ' (<yop<yw7riv trvp), against the giant Enceladus;3 (4) Zeus
blasting Mimas with his thunderbolt;4 and (5) Dionysos destroying
another giant with his ' unwarlike ivy-twined thyrsos.5

1 Eurip. Ion, vv. 190-218 :—

■ Ibid.:—

Tt'ya'p; Kfpavvbv
afiiftinvpov 6/jpi/xoe tV Aibf

opai, TOf &dior Mi m: :u &
irvpl KaraidaAou

> Ibid.:—

Conf. Eurip. IIcc. 470.

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