639 A Stoic philosopher; cf. pseudo‐Lucian, _Long Lives_ 21. 23; Suetonius, _Augustus_; Dio Chrysostom 33. 48. 640 _Letter_ 51. 434 A; _Letter to Themistius_ 265 C; Themistius 63 D. 641 ἄλλοι Reiske adds. 642 ἐμαυτοῦ Hertlein suggests, ἐμοῦ MSS. 643 ἔκγονον Wright, ἔγγονον Hertlein, MSS. 644 Cf. 309 C, _Oration_ 8. 244 A and note. 645 For this idiom cf. Milton, _Paradise Lost_ 4. 324. “Adam the goodliest of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.” 646 Euripides, _fr._ 417 Nauck. 647 ἀσθενῆ Sylburg adds. 648 After ἐτετελέκει Cobet suspects that several words are lost. 649 νίκης Cobet, MSS, δίκης Hertlein, V, M. 650 Maxentius. 651 Licinius. 652 A proverb for whatever perishes quickly; cf. Theocritus 15. Frazer, _Attis, Adonis and Osiris_, p. 194. 653 οὐ κρίνειν ἐκ Hertlein suggests, οὐκ ἐκ MSS. 654 At the storming of the capital of the Mallians, probably the modern city Multan, in 326 B.C., cf. Plutarch, _Alexander_; Lucian, _Dialogues of the Dead_ 14. 655 Peucestes was wounded but saved Alexander’s life; Pliny 34. 8. 656 _Andromache_ 693 foll.: the passage continues “Tis not those who did the work that gain the credit but the general wins all the glory.” Cleitus was killed by Alexander at a banquet for quoting these verses. 657 τὸν Κλεῖτον ἔδρασεν ἐργάσηται MSS.; Hertlein suggests omission of ἔδρασεν. 658 μήτε εἶναι μήτε νομίζεσθαι Hertlein suggests, εἶναι μήτε νομίζεσθαι MSS. 659 εἰπέ Hertlein suggests; cf. 333 D, εἶπε MSS. 660 οὔτοι V, Cobet, οὔτι Hertlein. 661 This is not according to history. The Senate gave Brutus and Cassius proconsular power in their provinces. 662 Tyrant of Syracuse 405‐367 B.C. 663 Tyrant of Syracuse 317‐289 B.C. 664 Caius Caesar. 665 Julian refers to the custom of deifying the Emperors. 666 μὲν οὖν Hertlein suggests, οὖν MSS. καὶ before σὺ Cobet adds. 667 εἰπέ Hertlein suggests, cf. 331 D, εἶπε MSS. 668 διαπορήσας Reiske suggests to complete the construction. 669 Simonides _fr._ 5 Bergk. 670 Plato, _Protagoras_ 339 E ὥσπερ ὑπὸ ἀγαθοῦ πύκτου πληγείς. 671 _Iliad_ 9. 343. 672 A paraphrase of _Iliad_ 5. 897. 673 ζῶν Cobet, ἄγων Reiske, ἔχων Hertlein, MSS. 674 _Iliad_ 3. 55. 675 Kronos. 676 Introduction to Volume I. p. vii. 677 Constantius Chlorus. 678 cf. Libanius, _Oration_ 29. 220, where he warns the people of Antioch that Caesarea had already robbed them of one sophist by the offer of a higher salary, and exhorts them not to neglect rhetoric, the cause of their greatness. 679 "The Discourse at Antioch" is an alternative title in the MSS. 680 In the seventh century B.C. Alcaeus of Lesbos and Archilochus both suffered exile, and the latter fell in battle against Naxos. For the misfortunes of Alcaeus, cf. Horace, _Odes_ 2. 13.