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450 Page 196.—Sharp only at the inglorious point of tongue is a verse, of which nothing is known.

, page 202.—Miltiades and his family were Laciadæ, or Laciads, this being the name of the members of the township or demus of Lacia, which itself was more commonly thus called, the township Laciadæ or the Laciads. Compare page 211.—For the quotation Rude and unrefined, see a note on the life of Marcellus at the end of Vol. II.

Page 203.—Laodice, of the daughters of Priam the best in appearance, occurs in the third Iliad (124). Iris took her form when she went to summon Helen to the walls, in the interval before the combat between Paris and Menelaus.

Pace 207.—These inscriptions are quoted by Æschines (In Ctesiphont., p. 573), in his speech on the Crown; the simple honors of old times contrasting favorably for his purpose with those now offered to Demosthenes. Butes is Boges in Herodotus, and Sochares (p. 208) is Sophanes.

Page 212.—King Agesilaus is a doubtful reading; Agesilas or Arcesilas is more probable.

Page 221.—The quotation from Aristophanes is from the Lysistrata (1138).

Page 223.—Posidonia is Pæstum; this is one of the first things mentioned of it. Pa^e 226.—Such was the Greek commander is a translation that has come from Amyot, "telle donc a esté la vie du capitaine Grec." The text, as we have it (agon, not hegĕmon), means Such is the Greek game, i. e., thus much is to be said for the Greek competitor in the present pair of lives.

, page 228.—Lash as a wounded tunny does the sea is quoted again in Plutarch's Essay on the Tardiness of the Gods in inflicting Punishment (de Sera Numinis Vindicta), where Wyttenbach, in his note, conjectures merely that it comes from a lost play of Æschylus or Sophocles, and the fragment following from a Comic writer. But nothing further is known.

Page 232.—Marius should in correctness be Manius, as appears from Velleius Paterculus (77., 18), who relates how on the occupation of the coast and islands of Asia Minor by Mithridates, Manius Aquillius and other Romans were handed over to him by the Mitylenæans.

Page 235.—The Sophists in Plato's dialogues always begin boldly with any showy, blustering piece of logic that occurs to them; and it is only when Socrates has quietly exposed the futility of this, that they bring forward something less pretentious and more to the point.

Page 277.—The city and adjoining villages or vici; such is Plutarch's expression; but the vici are properly the subdivisions of the regions, or wards, of the city, each under its proper officers or vici-magistri. Augustus made them four hundred and twenty-four in number. Many of these might in Lucullus's time have been called vici, but not included in the city.

Page 278.—The Lucullean gardens were those of the Garden Hill (the Collis Hortulorum), the Pincian of the present time. Horace, in the last line, is in the original Flaccus.

, page 284.—Plato says it scornfully not of Orpheus, but Musæus, in the Republic (II., p. 363). The feast of Venus, the Aphrodisia, is often spoken of as kept formally by sailors on their return to port, and, in a general way, the phrase is used of all indulgence and feasting after business, labor, or danger.