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μετοίκων. ‘Metic’ occurs only here in H.; it clearly is not used in a technical sense (though some have thought it = ἀπέταιροι of the Gortyn inscription), but only = ‘strangers’, i. e. non-Cretans.

Κορώβιος. Busolt (i. 480) thinks Corobius is one of the ἅλιοι γέροντες, a sea-god of Itanus (cf. the representations on the fifthcentury coins of Itanus, Head, H. N. 469); as, however, he admits that the colonists must have touched at Crete, and ‘may well have employed Cretan guides’, it is a little hard to see why Corobius should not be a real person. At any rate the Cretans had an important share in the colony (161. 3).

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