cf. pi 3137, pi 3138.
[1] See e.g. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.705-6.
[2] The verb pu/qesqai (pi 3138) means "to decay". For this material cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 9.405, where the phrase 'in rocky Pytho' occurs.
[3] Greek Anthology 7.154.5-6 (author unknown) on a statue of Vengeance atop the tomb of Coroebus; cf. Page (388-391) and another extract from this epigram at kappa 1530. Apollo dispatched Vengeance to Argos [Myth, Place] (alpha 3766) in retribution for the king's sheepdogs having killed his child, born by the Argive princess Psamathe. Vengeance then snatched babies from mothers in Argos until the Argive hero Coroebus killed her. Pausanias 1.43.7-8 (web address 1) provides more background to the epigram's story and describes the tomb of Coroebus in the agora at Megara (mu 387). Scholars have debated whether the epigram here is indeed one of the elegies from the tomb; in Pausanias's telling, there are two statues on top--Coroebus killing Apollo's avenger--whereas in the epigram there is but Vengeance alone; see Page (388-390) for a summary of the scholarly controversy.