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Rh Page 253.—The passage in Aristophanes is the 812th line of the Equites.

Page 259.—Nicogenes in Diodorus is called Lysithides, under which name the same account is given of his entertainment of Themistocles.

Page 267.—Plato in the Meno, arguing the question whether virtue or excellence is a tiling that can be learnt or attained by training and practice, or, on the contrary, comes to us by divine allotment, points out how Aristides and Pericles, and all the great Grecian statesmen, had failed to impart their political wisdom to their sons. ''You have often heard it said that Themistocles taught his son Cleophantus to be such an admirable rider, that he could stand upright on horseback, and could throw a javelin standing upright;—the son obviously was not without ability;—but did you ever hear it said by any one, that Cleophantus showed any virtue, skill, or wisdom in the same sort of things as did his father? Yet he, undoubtedly, had virtue been a tiling to be taught, would have taught his son the virtue and wisdom in which he himself excelled, (pp.'' 93, 94). Nothing is known beyond what is here said, of the Address of Andocides to his Friends. But the Friends, or rather Companions, are evidently the members of the oligarchical associations or clubs, who united under that name towards the end of the Peloponnesian war.

, page 273.—Matuta is quite confidently identified with Ino or Leucothea, by Ovid in the Fasti, (VI. 475-562),

The words, they embrace their brothers' children instead of their own, ought perhaps to be, they take their sisters' children up in their arms to present them to the goddess. Ino had been kinder to her sister's children than to her own. Thus Ovid says,

Page 288.—The twenty-fifth of Boëdromion, the day of the battle of Arbela, should be the twenty-sixth; and the day which the Carthaginians observe, the twenty-first of Metagituion, should, perhaps, be corrected to the twenty-second. Hesiod's account of fortunate and unfortunate days is appended to his Works and Days, from whence Virgil took the hint for his in the Georgies.

Page 290.—The Greek gives the past tense in the sentence, Others say that this fire was kept burning, &c.; but it should, probably, be altered all through into the present.

Page 291.—Doliola is the Latin name of the place called the Barrels. "It was thought best," says Livy (V. 40), "to bury them in barrels in the chapel adjoining the house of the flamen of Quirinus, in the spot where now it is considered an offence against religion to spit."

, page 327.—Plato's expression, "so strong a draught of liberty," occurs in the 8th book of the Republic, (p. 562). The author of the verses that follow is unknown.

Page 328.—The quotation from Plato is from the passage in the Phædrus, where Socrates argues that the knowledge of nature, and, in particular, of the