109 See Sophocles, "Antigone," 783, 784. And compare Horace, "Odes," Book iv. Ode xiii. 6–8, "Ille virentis et Doctæ psallere Chiæ Pulchris excubat in genis."
110 The "Niobe," which exists only in a few fragments.
111 This was the name of Dionysius' Poem. He was a Corinthian poet.
112 "Iliad," xiii. 131.
113 Reading according to the conjecture of Wyttenbach, ὡς τὸν Ἔρωτα υὁνον ἀήττητον ὄντα τῶν στρατηγῶν.
114 Something has probably dropped out here, as Dübner suspects.
115 Fragment from the "Sthenebœa" of Euripides.
116 Anytus was one of the accusers of Socrates, and so one of the causers of his death. So Horace calls Socrates "Anyti reum," "Sat." ii. 4, 3.
117 Homeric Epigrammata, xiii. 5. Quoted also in "On Virtue and Vice," § I.
118 Odyssey, xix. 40.
119 I adopt the suggestion of Wyttenbach, εἶπεν ῶ Δαφναῖε.
120 Pinder, "Pyth." i. 8.
121 See for example Homer, "Iliad," xi. 3, 73; ix. 502.
122 Euripides, "Pirithous," Fragm. 591. Dindorf.
123 An allusion to Homer, "Odyssey," xii. 453.
124 So Terence, "Andria," 555. "Amantium iræ amoris integratiost."
125 Euripides, "Hippolytus," 194–196.
126 The lines are from Alcæus. Thus Love was the child of the Rainbow and the West Wind. A pretty conceit.
127 Greek iris.
128 The mirrors of the ancients were of course not like our mirrors. They were only burnished bronze. Hence the view in them would be at best somewhat obscure. This explains 1 Cor. xiii. 12; 2 Cor. iii. 18; James i. 23.
129 See Euripides, "Hippolytus," 7, 8.
130 Here the story unfortunately ends, and for all time we shall know no more of it. Reiske somewhat forcibly says, "Vel lippus videat Gorgus historiam non esse finitam, et multa, ut et alias, periisse."
131 Like Reiske we condense here a little.
132 Reading with Reiske ὀρθῆς και ἀθρύπτου.
133 I read εἰ γἁρ.
134 See "Iliad," xxiii. 295. Podargus was an entire horse.
135 See Ovid, "Metamorph." iii. 206–208.
136 Æschylus, "Toxotides," Fragm. 224.
137 A very favourite proverb among the ancients. See Plat. "Phaedr." fin. Martial, ii. 43.
138 Soph. Fragm. 712.
139 On Lais, see Pausanias, ii. 2. Her Thessalian lover is there called Hippostratus. Her favours were so costly that the famous proverb is said to owe its origin to her, "Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum."
140 The Ægean and Ionian. Cf. Horace, "Odes," i. 7, 2.
141 On Acro-Corinthus, see Pausanias, ii. 4. The words in inverted commas are from Euripides, Fragm. 921.
142 On Lais generally, and her end, see Athenæus, xiii. 54, 55.
143 See § I. The Festival of Love was being kept at this very time.
144 This story is also told by Plutarch, "De Mulierum Virtutibus," § xx.
145 Sophocles, Fragm. 741. Quoted again in "On Abundance of Friends," § iii.
146 A Delphic word for love. Can it be connected with ἅρμα?
147 Very frequent in Homer, e.g., "Iliad," ii. 232; vi, 165; xiii. 636: xiv. 353, etc.
148 See Lucretius, iv. 1105–1114. I tone down the original here a little.
149 Homer, "Odyssey," vi. 183, 184. Cf. Eurip. "Medea," 14, 15.
150 This means when the moustache and beard and whiskers begin to grow.
151 The whole