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οὐκ ἔχω εἰπεῖν. This touch of scepticism is noteworthy (cf. ἄλλως . . . ἐκόπασε, ch. 191. 2). H. is only sure of the Athenian belief.

Ἰλισσόν. A field by the Ilissus was the scene of the rape of Oreithyia, though others said the Areopagus. Plato (Phaedr. 229 B) speaks of an altar to Boreas near Callirhoe; cf. Paus. i. 19. 6; Strabo 294; Harrison, op. cit. 224-6.

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