are "On Curiosity," Sec. x.
[834] The reading is very doubtful. I adopt [Greek:
hedones men euthus kenen charin, elpidos eremon
euriskousi.]
[835] Euripides, "Ino."
[836] See Herodotus, vi. 86; Juvenal, xiii, 199-207.
[837] The company are in the temple at Delphi, be it
remembered.
[838] Called Iadmon in Herodotus, ii. 134, where this
story is also told.
[839] Wyttenbach suggests Daulis.
[840] To Xerxes.
[841] The allusion is to the well-known story of
Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus, who is supposed to
have dwelt in the island of Sicily, where Agathocles was
tyrant.
[842] See Pausanias, viii. 14.
[843] Two were to be sent for 1,000 continuous years. So
the Oracle.
[844] See Pausanias ix. 30; Herodotus, v. 6.
[845] See Pausanias, vii. 27; Athenaeus, 372 A.
[846] A former king of Thebes. See Pausanias, ix. 5.
[847] Called Daiphantes, Pausanias, x. 1.
[848] Reading [Greek: apistois] with Xylander.
[849] The famous plague. See Thucydides, ii. 47-54.
[850] The allusion is to the circumstances mentioned in
Sec. xii.
[851] "Videtur idem cum _sorita_ esse."--_Reiske._
[852] Compare our author, "De EI a pud Delphos," Sec.
xviii. See also Seneca, "Epist.," lviii. p. 483; and
Plato, "Cratylus," 402 A.
[853] Sons of Dionysius.
[854] Sons of Cassander.
[855] "Iliad" vi. 146-149.
[856] Compare Plato, "Phaedrus," 276 B. These gardens of
Adonis were what we might call flowerpot gardens. See
Erasmus, "Adagia."
[857] [Greek: euthys] seems the best reading, [Greek:
aei] is flat.
[858] Apollo.
[859] See Sec. xii.
[860] Hesiod, "Works and Days," 735, 736.
[861] Compare the French Proverb, "L'occasion fait le
larron." And Juvenal's "Nemo repente fuit turpissimus."
[862] So Reiske very ingeniously.
[863] A rather far-fetched pedigree.
[864] See Pansanias, viii. 11; ix. 5, 10. See also Ovid,
"Metamorphoses," Book iii. 100-130.
[865] Compare "On Love," Sec. ii.
[866] At Mallus, in Cilicia. See Pausanias, i. 34.
[867] Reading [Greek: philedonias ischys] with Reiske.
[868] Reading [Greek: diapepoikilmenon on] with
Wyttenbach.
[869] A paronomasia on [Greek: genesis] as if [Greek:
epi gen neusis]. We cannot English it.
[870] Eurydice.
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