[71] I omit [Greek: kai kopidas] as a gloss or explanation of the old reading [Greek: makeleia] instead of [Greek: matruleia]. Nothing can be made of [Greek: kai kopidas] in the context. [72] "Works and Days," 606-608. [73] I follow here the reading of Wyttenbach. Through the whole of this essay the reading is very uncertain frequently. My text in it has been formed from a careful collation of Wyttenbach, Reiske, and Duebner. I mention this here once for all, for it is unnecessary in a translation to minutely specify the various readings on every occasion. I am not editing the "Moralia." [74] "De Oenantha et Agathoclea, v. Polyb. excerpt, l. xv."--_Reiske._ [75] Thespiae. The allusion is to Phryne. See Pausanias, ix. 27; x. 15. [76] Reading with Wyttenbach, [Greek: hosper daktylion ischnou, ho me perirrhue dedios.] [77] Perhaps _cur_ = coward, was originally _cur-tail_. [78] One of the three ports at Athens. See Pausanias, i. 1. [79] Iolaus was the nephew of Hercules, and was associated with him in many of his Labours. See Pausanias, i. 19; vii. 2; viii. 14, 45. [80] I read [Greek: synoarizontas]. The general reading [Greek: synerontas] will hardly do here. Wyttenbach suggests [Greek: synearizontas]. [81] What the [Greek: dibolia] was is not quite clear. I have supposed a jersey. [82] The women of Lemnos were very masterful. On one memorable occasion they killed all their husbands in one night. Thus the line of Ovid has almost a proverbial force, "Lemniadesque viros nimium quoque vincere norunt."--_Heroides_, vi. 53. Siebelis in his Preface to Pausanias, p. xxi, gives from an old Scholia a sort of excuse for the action of the women of Lemnos. [83] Probably the epilepsy. See Herodotus, iii. 33. [84] Euripides, "Bacchae," 203. [85] Euripides, Fragment of the "Melanippe." [86] I take Wyttenbach's suggestion as to the reading here. [87] This line is taken bodily by Aristophanes in his "Frogs," 1244. [88] The first line is the first line of a passage from Euripides, consisting of thirteen lines, containing similar sentiments to this. See Athenaeus, xiii. p. 599, F. The last two lines are from Euripides, "Hippolytus," 449, 450. [89] Compare Lucretius, i. 1-5. [90] Hesiod, "Theogony," 116-120. [91] Euripides, "Danae," Frag. Compare Ovid, "Cedit amor rebus: res age, tutus eris." [92] Sophocles, Fragm. 678, Dindorf. Compare a remark of Sophocles, recorded by Cicero, "De Senectute," ch. xiv. [93] Sophocles, Fragm. 720. Reading [Greek: kala] with Reiske. [94] Iliad, v. 831. [95] Connecting [Greek: Ares] with [Greek: anairein]. [96] The _Saint Hubert_ of the Middle Ages. [97] AEschylus, Frag. 1911. Dindorf. [98] Odyssey, v. 69. [99] Fragm. 146, 125. [100] Hermes is alluded to.