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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. m. JUNE, 1917.

GRAY'S BOOKS AND MSS. (See ante, p. 291.)

Vol. Hi. p. 162. Opp. " When all things were prepared " : Ol. 102. 2. Jul: An: 4343 Julii 8 the Battle was fought.

P. 262. Opp. " This Euclid was the great Mathematician " : Euclides, the Mathematician, lived above 100 Years after Socrates : he who was Socrates' Disciple was of Megara & Founder of the Sect call'd, oi 'JZpumKol. But this Pas- sage relates to neither of them, but to another, who was Archon, Ol: 94. 2, after the Peloponnesian War.

P. 276. Opp. " less than six hundred " : The Schol: on Aristophanes' Equites v: 851 say 6000, which is most probable. The 9 Archons and the Senate presided, & took the Votes : the con- demn'd Person was to leave the City in ten Days.

P. 284. Opp. note 2 : The words of Herodotus fix. 32] undoubtedly mean that the Persians lay in a Lane parallel to Erythrse, Hysise & a Part of the District of Plataea, but on the contrary Side of the Asopus, cbrd ']Zpv9paiut> ~rapa 'T<rids s rr\v IIXdTGUt'Sa yrjv [ix. 15] for all 3 Towns were on the same Side of that River, & had been alike deserted by Mardonius. See Thucyd: 3. c: 24. Strabo. 9. Pag: 620. Ed: Amst: Pausan: 9. 2. Hyria was very distant, between Tanagra & Aulis.

P 801. Opp. " That of Apollo in the City of Ptous " : The Temple was call'd Ptoum, & lay- near Acraephia on the Side of a Hill above the Lake Copa'is. It belong'd to the Thebans. Herod:

P. 302. Opp. note 2: This Note is quite false. Herodotus absolutely says that none but the Laced: Athen: & Tegeatse had any Share in the Action. The others indeed came up to the Pursuit.

P. 303. Opp. " the fourth of October " : Bead, the 3 d. See Dodwell Ann: Thucyd: An: ant: Christum 479. Sept: 22.

P. 317. Opp. " his Son Lysimachus " : Men- tion'd by Plato in y e Theages. He had a son call'd Aristides, Scholar to Socrates. See also the Laches.

Vol. iv. p. 171, Lysander. Opp. " Those who had been of service " : See the sad State of the Greek allies under these Oligarchies, in Isocrates Panegyric, p: 63.

P. 175. Opp. " When the Lion's strength " : Where the Lion's Skin will not reach we must piece it out with the Foxes.

Opp. " thus contrived their ruin " : By his Reproaches & Raillery irritated them to fall upon the People. (But he only acted a Part in order to keep the boldest Partisans of the Democracy from quitting the City, as he desired their De- struction, which actually happen'd for all, who trusted to him were murther'd.)

P. 176. Opp. " cruis'd about some neigh- bouring Islands " : He brought over some of the Islands.

P. 182. Opp. " with all gayety " : haveing bathed, & put on a splendid Mantle.

P. 184. Opp. " no sooner began his Siege " : It was near 4 Months before it surrender'd. See Xenoph: Hellen:

Opp. " the City surrendred " : Being betrayed & deceived by Theramenes, whom they princi- pally trusted.

P. 187. Opp. " with conquer'd People " : The best Account extant of Theramenes' Practises, of what passed in the Assembly in Presence of Lysander, & the Manner of electing the 30 Tyrants, is to be found in Lysias' Oration against Eratosthenes, which was spoke not three Years after this great Event.

P. 188. Opp. " cover'd with Counterfeit Brass " : be beat into the form of any useful Instrument.

P. 211. Opp. " devoted himself to a recluse Life " : lived, as a Suppliant.

P. 238, Sylla. Opp. " This Aristion " : His true name was Athenion, but being made free of Athens, he (as usual) assumed a new Name. He was a Philosopher of the Peripatetic School. We find his History at large in Athenseus. L: 5. C: 13. which is very curious.

P. 253. Opp. " the Reed of which they make Flutes " : vov rbv av\rjrt.Kov Ka\a.fj.ov. says Strabo. That is, not to make Flutes of; for the Tibia was made of Box usually ; or Bone. But to make the Mouth-Piece, or little Machine, which they blow'd thro', such as we insert into the Mouths of our Hautboys. Mp-vij (f>vov<ra Kd\a- /j-ov, rbv et's ray y\u}rra.s rCiv av\Civ eTrirrjSeiov as he says of the Lake in Ph[r]ygia, whence the R: Marsyas rises. L: 12. See Pindar's 12th Pythian, V: 43. & the Scholia on it.

P. 260. Opp. " Those Treatises " : See a full Account of these writeings. & the Hands they had past thro', in Strabo. L: 13. de Scepsi Urbe.

P. 297, Cimon. Opp. " They accused him " r This was made an article against him at thi- Time of his Ostracism, as Phasax tells us in his Orartion which bears the Name of Andocides.

P. 313. Opp. " This success " : Plutarch seems to have confounded the 2 Expeditions of the Athenians against Cyprus & Egypt together, for it was not till after the last, that this Embassy of Callias was sent ; that is 21 Years from this Victory. See Diod: Siculus, L: 12. Ol: 82. 4. tho' Dodwell in Annal: Thucyd: agrees with Plutarch here.

Opp. " no nearer the Grecian Sea " : See Isocrates in his Panegyric P: 65. Ed: H: Steph:

P. 321. Opp. " juncture of the Times " : Here seems a Mistake. It does not appear that the Athenians were defeated at Tanagra. They were indeed defeated at Coronea (another city of Bceotia) & their Commander Tolmides slain, but this did not happen till two Years after Cimon's Death, Ol: 83. 2.

P. 339, Lucullus. Opp. " mustered a hundred and twenty thousand Foot " : Strabo says, he came before Cyzicus with 150 Thousand foot.

P. 361. Opp. "to Tigranes in Armenia " r Antiochus the Great divided Armenia into two, & over each Part he placed a Governour. Ar- taxias had the N: & N: E: & Zaradrius the S: W: or Sophene. When Chat King's Affairs begun to decline after the Defeat given him by the Romans, both these revolting founded two Kingdoms which continued in their families for several Generations, & this Tigranes was one of the Artaxiadse. In his Youth he was a Hostage in the Court of Parthia, but upon his comeing to the Crown he made War with great Success upon that Nation, & took from them Gordiene, Me "'