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[717] This Asios, who is not heard of again, is of course not to be confused with Asios, son of Hyrtakos, in M and N. It appears from this that Hekabe was herself daughter of Dymas; whereas the later tradition (traceable as far back as Euripides) made her daughter of Kisseus and sister of Theano. So Virgil calls her Cisseis ( Aen. vii. 320). Apollodoros names Sangarios for her father (see next line), while we have choice between no less than six claimants to the position of her mother. No wonder the Emperor Tiberius wrote a dissertation Quae mater Hecubae fuerit.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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