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 512 APPENDIX. Pages 190 to 205. — It may add interest to the details of Antony's Parthian campaign to know that they are very likely taken from the narrative of an eye-witness. Strabo {XI. p. 523) tells us, that a history of the campaign was drawn up by Antony's friend and officer, Dellius, who served in it himself, and Plutarch, a little further on, speaks of Dellius as the historical writer, so that it is certain. that he knew of his history. This is apparently the same Dellius who before (p. 179) was sent to summon Cleopatra to appear before Antony, and gave her the advice to go to Cilicia in her best attire. He deserted Antony before the battle of Actium, and he is generally identified with the morilwe Delli, addressed in the third ode of the second book by Horace as a rich man Uving at his ease. Page 224. — Two passages are extant in the comedies of Arislophanes in which Timon is mentioned, — the 1549th line of the Birds, in which Prometheus calls himself a Timon, a sort of god-misanthrope among the deities, and lines 805- 820 of the Lysistrata, where his solitary, man-hating life is briefly depicted. Plato, the comic poet, was another contemporary. So also was Phrynichus, a fragment of whom, describing Timon's habits, is preserved by a grammarian. But it seems to have been in the next century by Antiphanes, one of the two great leaders of the second or Middle Attic Comedy (quoted by Plutarch, Vol. V. p. 10, as ridiculing Demosthenes), that Timon was elevated to be the ideal of the mis- anthrope, and made the vehicle for general invective on mankind. Antiphanes wrote a play called Timon. This passage in Plutarch is the most historical account that we have of Timon, though it is from Lucian's dialogue in the cen- tury following Plutarch that the modern representations have been chiefly derived. Some have thought that Lucian probably copied Antiphanes, but this is quite conjectural. Page 239. — Ahenobarbus, in the second line, is the son of Domitius who de- serted before Actium (p. 216), and is the father of Ahenobarbus in the ninth line. The stem, showing the three emperors of Antony's race, is as follows : — Mark Antony —^ Octavia, sister of the Emperor Augustus. I atonia = L. Domitius Ahenobarbus Antonia = Dinisus, brother I of the Emperor Tiberius. Agrippina (I.) = Germanicns The Emperor Claudius. daughter of Agrippa and Julia daughter of Augustus. Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus = Agrippina (II) The Emperor Caligula. Lucius Domitius, the Emperor Nero. Comparison, page 242. — The quotation from Euripides, the minister of the unprieslly or unhallowed Mars, is an uncertain fragment. No. cxii. in Matthias. A second Taphosiris (tomb of Osiris) is distinguished by Strabo from the more important inland town of the same name, and described as a rocky place on the coast, and a favorite resort for pleasure parties from Ale.xandria. Life of Dion, page 245. — Aristotle, in his Rhetoric, takes the verse of Simonides in quite a diflerent sense. The Corinthians, he says, thought Simo-