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[763] Φηρητιάδαο, another ‘papponymic’ (see on 621). Eumelos was son of Admetos, son of Pheres. It is of course possible that the poet meant that the horses were the horses of Admetos, and only lent to Eumelos by his father, or inherited, as in the case of the “Νηλήϊαι ἵπποι” of Nestor, 11.597; but this is not likely, cf. 23.376.

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