Verse 593 — W. Leaf's commentary on Homer's Iliad 1 0
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Lemnos was sacred to Hephaistos on account what was called the ‘Lemnian Fire’ on Mount Mosychlos. This is commonly taken to mean that Mosychlos was a volcano. But the present state of the island forbids the assumption of volcanic agency, and the fire was probably only a jet of natural gas, such as may have existed for a time and then disappeared. (See de Launay in Rev. Arch. for 1895, pp. 304-25. For the references to the Lemnian Fire see Jebb on Soph. Phil. 800, and pp. 242-5. The supposed disappearance of the ‘volcano’ Mosychlos is geologically untenable.) |
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