[35\3: ~ka\d d' en Athê/nê|s' ei=sen, heô=| eni\ pi/oni nêô=|~. These words may be kept in mind in order to explain the mysterious narrative in Hesiod _Th._ 987 ff. of Phaethon whom Aphrodite ~ô=rt' anereipsame/nê kai/ min zathe/ois eni\ nê/ois nêopo/lon mu/chion poiê/sato, dai/mona di=on~. Aphr., in fact. "translated" Phaethon alive and made him immortal--within her own temple just as Athene had Erechtheus. Perhaps Phaethon was translated beneath the ground under the temple--the adj. ~mu/chion~ may mean this. ~theoi\ mu/chioi~ are those that rule over the ~mucho/s~ of a house, e.g. over the ~tha/lamos~ as the inmost chamber: thus ~Aphrodi/tê muchi/a~ (Ael., _HA._ x, 34). ~Lêtô\ muchi/a~ (Plu. ap. Eus., _PE._ iii, 1, 3, p. 84 c.). A goddess called simply ~Muchi/a~, ins. fr. Mytilene, _GDI._ 255. But ~mu/chioi~ could also mean dwellers in the depths of the earth (~muchô=| chthono\s euruodei/ês~, Hes., _Th._ 119; more commonly in the plural ~muchoi\ chthono/s~, see Markland on Eur., _Sup._ 545; cf. ~A/ïdos mucho/s~, _AP._ vii, 213, 6 (Archias); also ~mucho\s eusebe/ôn, athana/tôn~ under the earth, _Epigr. Gr._ 241 _a_, 18; 658 _a_; _Rh. Mus._ 34, 192). Thus (of the Erinyes) Orph. _H._ 69, 3, ~mu/chiai, hupo\ keu/thesin oiki/' e/chousai a/ntrô| en êero/enti~. Phot. 274, 18, ~mucho/pedon; gê=s ba/thos, Ha/idês.~] [36\3: That the ~mi/n~ of line 550 refers to Erechtheus and not Athene is shown by the context: Schol. BL. states it expressly. Athene cannot have been intended to accept the offering of bulls and rams, for ~thê/lea tê=| Athêna=| thu/ousin~. And, in fact, cows, not bulls, were offered to Athene; cf. P. Stengel, _quaest. sacr._, p. 4-5, Berl. 1879.] [37\3: See Wachsmuth, _Ber. sächs. Ges. Wiss._, p. 399 ff., 1887.] {112} [38\3: Thus there was, at the temple of Palaimon on the Isthmus, an ~a/duton kalou/menon, ka/thodos de\ es auto\ hupo/geôs, e/ntha dê\ to\n Palai/mona _kekru/phthai_~ (i.e. not dead and buried) ~phasi/n~. Paus. 2, 2, 1.] [39\3: ~cha/sma kru/ptei chthono/s~, Eur. _Ion_, 292.--Erechtheus ab Iove Neptuni rogatu fulmine est ictus, Hyg. 46. That is only another kind of translation.] [40\3: We need not here speak of the relationship between Erechtheus and Poseidon, with whom he was eventually merged.] [41\3: Clem. Al. _Protr._ iii, p. 39 P. (with Arnob. and the others who copy him); [Apollod.] 3, 14, 7, 1. Clemens (quoting Antiochos of Syracuse mentions a grave of Kekrops on the citadel. It is uncertain what is the relation between this and the ~Kekro/pion~ known from insc. _CIA._ i, 322, and ~to\ tou= Ke/kropos hiero/n~ on the citadel (Decree honouring the Epheboi of the tribe Kekropis in the year 333: _BCH._ '89, p. 257. l. 10).]