721 Stratonice. 722 In Plutarch’s version Antiochus married Stratonice during his father’s lifetime. 723 ἐπώνυμον Hertlein suggests, ὁμώνυμον MSS. 724 _Iliad_ 24. 261. 725 _Odyssey_ 19. 396. 726 σε ὅτι—δεῖ Cobet, σε—δεῖν Hertlein, MSS. 727 αὐτοὺς Reiske, αὐτοῖς Hertlein, MSS. 728 Smicrines is a typical name in New Comedy for an avaricious old man; Thrasyleon is said to have been used by Menander as the name of a boasting soldier, “miles gloriosus.” 729 Theognis 215 foll. advises men to imitate the adaptability of the polypus. 730 Mykonos was an island in the Cyclades whose inhabitants were proverbial for poverty and greed. 731 The cordax was a lascivious dance. 732 Plato, _Republic_ 372 E. 733 The suitors of Penelope lived on pork and mutton. 734 Literally “pulse.” 735 Aristophanes, _Acharnians_ 180 uses these words to describe the older, more robust generation of Athenians. 736 Xenophon, _Symposium_ 4. 28. 737 _i.e._ before he had been appointed Caesar. 738 cf. 352 C. 739 The chariot race in _Iliad_ 23. 740 The citharode played and sang to the lyre: Phemius was at the court of Odysseus in Ithaca; Demodocus in Phaeacia. 741 Odysseus thus refers to Nausicaa in _Odyssey_ 6. 162. 742 _i.e._ Mardonius; it was a Sophistic mannerism to use such a periphrasis instead of giving the name directly; see vol. i. _Introduction_, p. xi. 743 Constantius was under the influence of the powerful eunuchs of his court; they had been expelled by Julian, but Mardonius was an exception to his class. 744 Basilina. 745 Athene. 746 πᾶσιν ἄδειαν Cobet, πᾶσι πᾶσαν ἄδειαν Hertlein, MSS. 747 Plato, _Laws_ 730 D. 748 ἐπονειδιστότατον Hertlein suggests, ἐπονείδιστον MSS. 749 Julian refers to Libanius the famous rhetorician; with him were also Maximus of Ephesus, Priscus, Himerius and Oreibasius the physician. 750 ἀκούσῃς Hertlein suggests, ἀκούσαις MSS. 751 ἀρξαμένοις before πρῶτον Hertlein suggests, Klimek ἀποστᾶσι τῆς for ἀπὸ τῆς. 752 In 272 B.C. the Romans took Tarentum. 753 The people of Antioch ridiculed the Pagan symbols, such as the figures of Helios, the sun‐god, which Julian had engraved on his coinage. 754 There was a statue of Calliope in the market‐place at Antioch. 755 The people of Emesa burned the Christian churches and spared only one, which they converted into a temple of Dionysus. 756 A proverb to express complete indifference. 757 ἐκ βίβλων πολλῶν Hertlein suggests, ἐκ τῶν πολλῶν MSS. 758 The anecdote which follows is told by Plutarch in his _Cato the Younger_ and also in his _Pompeius_. 759 Julian must have known that in Cato’s day the Romans never wore beards. 760 cf. _Fragment of a Letter_ 299 C, note. 761 Plutarch.