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414 soul, is as necessary to the perfect master of rhetoric, as the knowledge of the body is to the physician. Pericles is said to thunder and lighten in the Acharnians of Aristophanes (530).

Page 337.—Socrates says he heard Pericles propose to the people the building of the long wall—more properly the middle wall, a subsequent addition to the long walls—in the Gorgias of Plato, (p. 456 a). The Odeum was burnt in the time of the siege of Athens by, to be described in Sylla's life.

Page 341.—The quotation from Plato is again out of the Phædrus, (p. 261). Rhetoric is a psychagogia—a magic power of swaying and carrying about the souls of men by the use of words.

Page 348.—The brazen wolf at Delphi was famous. ''A man who carried off some treasure from the temple, went to hide it in the thick woods of Parnassus. A wolf fell upon him and killed him; and for many days after came daily into the city and howled. At last the people followed him, discovered the gold, and set up this image of the wolf.—(Pausanias, X.'' 14.)

Page 353.—Aristophanes's line about the Samians is from his lost comedy of the Babylonians.

Page 354.—Most likely the engineer was called Periphoretus, or the carried-about, for the very reason that the name was already familiar from Anacreon's verses.

Page 356.—Cimon is said to have given these names to his sons in honor of the states whom he represented, as Proxenus, at Athens.

Page 358.—The story of Anthemocritus is not alluded to by any contemporary writer. Yet Pausanias also relates it, and speaks of his monument as still remaining on the Sacred Road, going to Eleusis; just as described here, outside the Dipylon. The famous verses in the Acharnians are the 524th and following.

Page 368.—Sold for slaves may have been Plutarch's expression, but the fact itself cannot be believed; and it would not be difficult to correct the one word in which the assertion is made.

Page 370.—Olympus, where they say the gods have their ever secure abode, occurs in the Odyssey (VI. 42), and the phrase of the secure abode or seat is repeated by Pindar, (Nem. VI. 3).

, page 393.—This is probably a fragment, of which no more is known. No existing line of Euripides can very well be identified with it.

Page 400.—This brazen colossal statue of Hercules was the work, we are told by Strabo (VI. c. 3), of Lysippus. He speaks of it as still standing in his time in the Capitol, as the offering of Fabius Maximus, the taker of the city.

Page 404.—"Long shaken on the seas restored the state," is said of Œdipus, in the beginning of the Œdipus Tyrannus.