78.
93 -- _Idomeneus,_ son of Deucalion, was king of Crete.

Having vowed, during a tempest, on his return from Troy, to sacrifice to Neptune the first creature that should present itself to his eye on the Cretan shore, his son fell a victim to his rash vow.
94 -- _Tydeus' son, i.e._ Diomed.
95 That is, Ajax, the son of Oileus, a Locrian.

He must be distinguished from the other, who was king of Salamis.
96 A great deal of nonsense has been written to account for the word _unbid,_ in this line.

Even Plato, "Sympos." p.

315, has found some curious meaning in what, to us, appears to need no explanation.