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The details of the transformation vary in the several accounts: in Apollodorus the mast and oars became snakes, and the ship is filled with ivy; in Nonnus the mast is changed into a cypress wreathed with ivy. So in Opp. Ven. iv. 261 f. a boat, which carried the infant Bacchus across the Euripus, was covered with ivy, vines, and smilax.

The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.

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