Endnotes

1. The Peleads were the priestesses of Dodona who interpreted the rustling of the oak or the cooing of the sacred doves and their name in folk etymology was identified with peleiai, doves. ↩︎

The Trachiniae
was written between 450 and 425 BCE by
Sophocles.
It was translated from Ancient Greek in 1913 by
Francis Storr.

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