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[27] For ἴρισσιν Zen. had the remarkable variant “ἐρίδεσσιν”. This is only explicable on the supposition of a complete confusion between “Ἶρις” and “Ἔρις”: hence H. Meyer E. concludes that “Ἔρις” in ll. 3, 73, where she acts as messenger of Zeus, herself represents the original Iris. The comparison of snakes to rainbows in Aen. v. 87-9 rests on the variegated colour.
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