Bakchylides SM – Bacchylidis Carmina cum fragmentis, ed. B. Snell and H. Maehler. Leipzig 1970 (10th ed.).
Dithyramboi 23, Apparatus, p. 73
Porphyrio about Horace, Odes 1.15: With this ode he (Horace) imitates Bakchylides; in fact, as he (Bakchylides) makes Cassandra prophesize the future of the Trojan War, this one (Horace) makes Proteus do the same. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 92
fr 1B – p. 83
Hekate the torch-bearer, daughter of the large-bosomed Nyx (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 26
fr 7 – p. 87
The Greeks summoned Philoktetes from Lemnos because of Helenos’ prophesy; for it had been decreed that without the bow of Herakles Ilios would not be taken. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 635
fr 9 – p. 88
Serv. Verg. Aen. 2,20: Certainly Bakchylides talks of Laocoon and his wife or of the snakes coming from the Kalydnai islands and changed into humans. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 647
fr 47 – p. 110
Some say that Persephone was carried off from Sicily, but Bakchylides says that she was abducted from Krete. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 66
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