Part 59

Pindar, "Olymp." ix. 57, 58.

Mentioned by Pausanias, iii. 12; viii. 50.

"Memorabilia," ii. l. 31.

Reading as Wyttenbach suggests, [Greek: malista de hotan legetai ta allo pepragmena] sq.

Thucydides, ii. 60.

See Pausanias, ix. 14, 15.

Homer, "Iliad," iv. 405.

Homer, "Iliad," iv. 370, 371.

Diomede.

Sophocles, "Trachiniae," 442.

Homer, "Iliad," xvi. 847, 848. Plutarch only quotes the first line. I have added the second for the English reader, as necessary for the sense.

Homer, "Iliad," i. 128, 129.

"Iliad," ix. 328.

"Iliad," xvi. 70, 71. So Wyttenbach.

Demosthenes, "De Corona," p. 260.

"De Corona," p. 307.

After Wyttenbach.

After Wyttenbach.

That is, laughing-stock. A play on the word Gelon.

Homer, "Iliad," xxii. 379. He speaks of Hector.

Others take it "as fortune's favourite."

Words of Demosthenes, "De Corona," p. 325. Plutarch condenses them.

Homer, "Odyssey," xvi. 187.

Titles of the Ptolemies, Philadelphus Philometor, Euergetes.

Homer, "Iliad," xxiii. 673.

Ibid. 670.

Homer, "Odyssey," xii. 192-194.

Ibid. ix. 228, 229.