[1]: The scene of the dialogue is laid in the temple of Delphi. (G.)
[2]: See the speech of Cleon, Thuc. III. 38.
[3]: I follow Wyttenbach’s emendation μάλιστ’ ἄν for μόλις ἄν. (G.)
[4]: Referring to the verse, Ὀψὲ θεῶν ἀλέουσι μύλοι, ἀλέουσι δὲ λεπτά, the mills of the Gods grind late, but they grind fine. (G.)
[5]: That is, in the Sacred or Phocian war, 357-346 B.C. (G.)
[6]: Referring to the doctrine of Heraclitus, that all Nature is moving onward, and nothing is the same two successive moments. You cannot step twice into the same river, he says. See Plat. Cratyl. p. 402 A. (G.)
[7]: Hesiod, Works and Days, 735.
[8]: The Emperor Vespasian.