[808] Some word, such as κατοικίαι, seems here to be wanting; ὁδοὶ, which some commentators suppose to be here understood, would be unsuitable to the passage, nor would it convey a proper meaning. _Kramer._ [809] The word ἐραστής must be here understood, and not υἱὸς. _Groskurd._ [810] The celebrated general of Mithridates. [811] See b. xii. c. i. § 2. [812] He was prevented from carrying on this war by the senate. See b. xii. c. iii. § 34. [813] The elder sister of Cleopatra. [814] Six months after. [815] About B. C. 49. [816] B. ix. c. v. § 6. [817] I have adopted the reading, ἀπολιτικὸν, “not understanding or ill-adapted for the duties of citizens,” suggested by Kramer. [818] Od. iv. 481. [819] No longer existing. [820] Akabet el Kebira or Marsa Sollom. [821] Baretoun, or Berek-Marsa. “Alexander, after passing 1600 stadia through that part of the desert where water was to be found to Parætonium, then turned inland to visit the oracle of Ammon.” _Arrian_, b. iii. § 3. [822] “Wines which have been very carefully prepared with sea-water never cause head-aches.” _Athenæus_, b. i. c. i. 59, p. 54. Bohn’s Classical Library. [823] Cape Deras. [824] The exact site is not ascertained, but it was not far from Aboukir. [825] “Hellanicus says that the vine was first discovered in Plinthine, a city of Egypt,” and that for those “who, on account of their poverty, could not get wine, there was introduced a custom of drinking beer made of barley.” _Athenæus_, b. i. c. i. 61, p. 56. Bohn’s Classical Library. [826] “The Mareotic wine is erroneously stated by Athenæus (p. 55. Bohn’s Classical Library) to have obtained its name from a fountain called Marea. The fountain and town derived their name from Maro, who was one of the companions of Bacchus.” The wine is praised by Horace, Odes I. xxxvii. 14: Mentemque lymphatam Mareotico Redegit in veros timores. Virgil, Geor. ii. 91, calls a vine by this name: Sunt Thasiæ vites, sunt et Mareotides albæ. [827] The Papyrus. [828] “There is also the ciborium. Hegesander the Delphian says that Euphorion the poet, when supping with Prytanis, his host, exhibited to him some ciboria, which appeared to be made in a most exquisite and costly manner. Didymus says that it is a kind of drinking-cup, and perhaps it may be the same as that which is called scyphium, which derives its name from being contracted to a narrow space at the bottom, like the Egyptian ciboria.” _Athenæus_, b. xi. § 54, p. 761. Bohn’s Classical Library. [829] The two kinds known at present are the Egyptian and the Syracusan, which, according to Professor Parlatori, have the same general appearance, but differ in the number of flower-lobes. [830] That is, the juice was extracted for its sugar; see b. xvi. c. ii. § 41, and Pliny, xiii. 12. [831] Od. iv. 228.