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88 sailors, "the ants of ocean"; the strap of a pedlar's pack, "the girdle of his load"; pitch, "the ointment of doors," and so on.

IV. 4. 4. The play upon the double meaning of , (1) maiden, (2) pupil of the eye, can hardly be kept in English. It is worthy of remark that our text of Xenophon has , a perfectly natural expression. Such a variation would seem to point to a very early corruption of ancient manuscripts, or to extraordinary inaccuracy on the part of Longinus, who, indeed, elsewhere displays great looseness of citation, confusing together totally different passages.

9.  I can make nothing of this word. Various corrections have been suggested, but with little certainty.

5. 10. , literally, "as though he were laying hands on a piece of stolen property." The point seems to be, that plagiarists, like other robbers, show no discrimination in their pilferings, seizing what comes first to hand.

VIII. 1. 20. . I have avoided the rather harsh confusion of metaphor which this word involves, taken in connection with .

IX. 2. 13. , properly an "echo," a metaphor rather Greek than English.

X. 2. 13. , lit. "more wan than grass"—of the sickly yellow hue which would appear on a dark Southern face under the influence of violent emotion.

3. 6. The words  are omitted in the translation, being corrupt, and giving no satisfactory sense. Ruhnken corrects, .