Part 63

Euripides, "Ino."

See Herodotus, vi. 86; Juvenal, xiii, 199-207.

The company are in the temple at Delphi, be it remembered.

Called Iadmon in Herodotus, ii. 134, where this story is also told.

Wyttenbach suggests Daulis.

To Xerxes.

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.

See Pausanias, viii. 14.

Two were to be sent for 1,000 continuous years. So the Oracle.

See Pausanias ix. 30; Herodotus, v. 6.

See Pausanias, vii. 27; Athenaeus, 372 A.

A former king of Thebes. See Pausanias, ix. 5.

Called Daiphantes, Pausanias, x. 1.

Reading [Greek: apistois] with Xylander.

The famous plague. See Thucydides, ii. 47-54.

The allusion is to the circumstances mentioned in Sec. xii.

"Videtur idem cum sorita esse."--Reiske.

Compare our author, "De EI a pud Delphos," Sec. xviii. See also Seneca, "Epist.," lviii. p. 483; and Plato, "Cratylus," 402 A.

Sons of Dionysius.

Sons of Cassander.

"Iliad" vi. 146-149.

Compare Plato, "Phaedrus," 276 B. These gardens of Adonis were what we might call flowerpot gardens. See Erasmus, "Adagia."

Apollo.

See Sec. xii.

Hesiod, "Works and Days," 735, 736.

Compare the French Proverb, "L'occasion fait le larron." And Juvenal's "Nemo repente fuit turpissimus."

So Reiske very ingeniously.

A rather far-fetched pedigree.