[813] An allusion to the proverb [Greek: Opse Theou aleousi myloi, aleousi de lepta]. See Erasmus, "Adagia," p. 1864. [814] Cf. Plato, "Republic," 472 A. [815] See Note, "On Abundance of Friends," Sec. ii. [816] Reading [Greek: ei gar]. [817] Or _a world_. [818] See above, Sec. ii. [819] Quoted also in "On restraining Anger," Sec. ii. [820] It seems necessary to read either [Greek: porizein] with Mez, or [Greek: horizein] with Wyttenbach. [821] Compare Aristophanes, "Vespae," 438. [822] See Pausanias, viii. 27. [823] Pindar. [824] Homer, "Iliad," xv. 641, 642. [825] See Thucydides, i. 127. [826] See Pausanias, v. 17; viii. 24; ix. 41; x. 29. [827] Hesiod, "Works and Days," 266. [828] Ibid. 265. Compare Pausanias, ii. 9; Ovid, A. A. i. 655, 656. [829] "Significat martyres Christianos, in tunica molesta fumantes."--_Reiske._ [830] Like the sword of Damocles. See Horace, "Odes," iii. 1. 17, 21. [831] See also Pausanias, iii. 17. [832] Surely [Greek: an anatrepoi] must be read. [833] Compare "On Curiosity," Sec. x. [834] The reading is very doubtful. I adopt [Greek: hedones men euthus kenen charin, elpidos eremon euriskousi.] [835] Euripides, "Ino." [836] See Herodotus, vi. 86; Juvenal, xiii, 199-207. [837] The company are in the temple at Delphi, be it remembered. [838] Called Iadmon in Herodotus, ii. 134, where this story is also told. [839] Wyttenbach suggests Daulis. [840] To Xerxes. [841] The allusion is to the well-known story of Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus, who is supposed to have dwelt in the island of Sicily, where Agathocles was tyrant. [842] See Pausanias, viii. 14. [843] Two were to be sent for 1,000 continuous years. So the Oracle. [844] See Pausanias ix. 30; Herodotus, v. 6. [845] See Pausanias, vii. 27; Athenaeus, 372 A. [846] A former king of Thebes. See Pausanias, ix. 5. [847] Called Daiphantes, Pausanias, x. 1. [848] Reading [Greek: apistois] with Xylander. [849] The famous plague. See Thucydides, ii. 47-54. [850] The allusion is to the circumstances mentioned in Sec. xii. [851] "Videtur idem cum _sorita_ esse."--_Reiske._ [852] Compare our author, "De EI a pud Delphos," Sec. xviii. See also Seneca, "Epist.," lviii. p. 483; and Plato, "Cratylus," 402 A. [853] Sons of Dionysius. [854] Sons of Cassander. [855] "Iliad" vi. 146-149. [856] Compare Plato, "Phaedrus," 276 B. These gardens of Adonis were what we might call flowerpot gardens. See Erasmus, "Adagia." [857] [Greek: euthys] seems the best reading, [Greek: aei] is flat. [858] Apollo. [859] See Sec. xii. [860] Hesiod, "Works and Days," 735, 736.