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Why does Aeschylus then choose line 670 onwards to

attribute such descriptions, of the vile


rage of Zeus, to Loxias?

Yielding obedience to such prophetic utterances of Loxias, [670] he


drove me away and barred me from his house, against his will and mine;
but the constraint of Zeus forced him to act by necessity. Immediately
my form and mind were distorted, and with horns, as you see, upon my
forehead, [675] stung by a sharp-fanged gadfly I rushed with frantic
bounds to Cerchnea's sweet stream and Lerna's spring. But Argus, the
earth-born herdsman, untempered in his rage, pursued me, peering with
his many eyes upon my steps. [680] A sudden death robbed him of life
unexpectedly; while I, still tormented by the gadfly, am driven on from
land to land before the heaven-sent plague.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext
%3A1999.01.0010%3Acard%3D640

And is the reader aware that Loxias is an alias for

Apollo himself and notably for


incomprehensible oracular
sayings?

A name for Apollo as the god of incomprehensible oracular sayings. He


had an oracle at Loxias which was sacked by Cadmus and Harmonia, whom
he then transformed into serpents (Euripides. Bacchae, 1346).

http://pantheon.org/articles/l/loxias.html

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