595 An oracular verse ascribed to Rhadamanthus by Aristotle, _Nic. Ethics_ 5. 5. 3; attributed to Hesiod, _Fragments_ 150 Goettling; it became a proverb. 596 Plato, _Laws_ 659 E; a rhetorical commonplace; Themistius 63 B. 597 Cf. Plato, _Symposium_ 215; cf. Julian, _Oration_ 6. 187 A. 598 A reference to the oracle of Apollo which declared that Socrates was the wisest man of his times. 599 Cf. _Oration_ 1. 7 A, B. 600 _i.e._ the two Maximians, the colleagues of Diocletian. 601 Constantine II, Constans and Constantius. 602 Cf. _Oration_ 1. 31, 33 foll. 603 ἑνός εἰσιν ἀντάξιοι Naber, ἑνὸς ὦσιν οὐκ ἀντάξιοι Hertlein, MSS.; V omits οὐκ. 604 Caracalla. 605 Cf. Plato, _Laws_ 730 D; Julian, _Misopogon_ 353 D. 606 ἐκροφήσουσι Hertlein suggests, ἐκροφήσωσι MSS. 607 ἀφελοῦνται Hertlein suggests, ἀφέλωνται MSS. 608 Marcus Aurelius. 609 A reference to the water‐clock, _clepsydra_. 610 In this doggerel made up of tags of anapaestic verse, Julian reproduces in the first five and last two verses the proclamation made at the Olympic games. The first three verses occur in Lucian, _Demonax_ 65. 611 πλεῖν Cobet, πλέον Hertlein, MSS. 612 ἐπῆλθε Hertlein suggests, περιῆλθε Cobet, παρῆλθε MSS. 613 οὔτι ταὐτὸν Hertlein suggests, τί τοσοῦτον MSS. 614 Cf. _Oration_ 1. 8 C. 615 Darius III. 616 Cf. _Oration_ 2. 56 C. 617 The “inner” sea was the Mediterranean. 618 Caesar, _De Bello Gallico_ 4. 25, ascribes this to the standard‐ bearer of the tenth legion. 619 γεγονὼς Petavius, Naber, γέγονας Hertlein, MSS. 620 τῇ νίκῃ before νικῶν Hertlein suggests; cf. _Oration_ 1. 59 D. 621 At Gades, on seeing a statue of Alexander; cf. Suetonius, _Julius Caesar_ 7. 622 Led by Spartacus 73‐71 B.C.; Appian, _Civil Wars_ I. 116‐120. 623 Lucius Gellius; Plutarch, _Crassus_. 624 Licinius Lucullus the conqueror of Mithridates. 625 Caius Marius the rival of Sulla. 626 Furius Camillus repulsed the Gauls 390 B.C.; cf. _Oration_ 1. 29 D. 627 Cf. _Letter to Themistius_, 267 B. 628 A proverb for effeminacy; cf. Plutarch, _Pompeius_ 48; Juvenal 9. 133, _qui digito scalpunt uno caput_; Lucian, _The Rhetorician’s Guide_ 11. 629 At Dyrrhachium; Plutarch, _Julius Caesar_. 630 An echo of Plutarch, _Apophthegmata_ 206 D. 631 Ἀντώνιος Cobet rejects, since Julian prefers to substitute descriptive phrases for names. 632 ὅμως Cobet, ὅμως δὲ Hertlein, MSS. 633 Heracles. 634 τὸν Hertlein would add. 635 ἀποδεδειγμένα Cobet, ἀποδεδομένα Hertlein, MSS. 636 ἡσυχάζειν Reiske adds. 637 Suetonius, _Augustus_ 16; during the campaign against Pompey when the fleet of Augustus was lost in a storm, he swore that he would win in spite of Neptune. 638 Augustus was Julius Caesar’s nephew, and his son only by adoption.