[1]: It is uncertain what passage in Plato is meant.
[2]: Philip V., King of Macedonia. Cf. the Aemilius Paulus, viii. 6
[3]: In 63 B.C., when Pompey conquered Mithridates VI. and dismembered his kingdom.
[4]: In the spring of 312 B.C.
[5]: The competitors at the great games were divided into three classes: boys, beardless youths, and men (Plato, Laws, 833 c).
[6]: May-June, 307 B.C.
[7]: 323-322 B.C. See the Phocion, xxiii.; xxvi. 1.
[8]: Every fifth year, at the Panathenaic festival, a sacred robe was carried in solemn procession and deposited with the goddess Athena on the Acropolis. On it were represented the exploits of the goddess, particularly in the Battle of the Giants.
[9]: In 322 B.C. A Macedonian fleet was victorious.
[10]: Knights, 382.
[11]: The peplos was spread like a sail on the mast of the sacred Panathenaic ship.
[12]: Cf. Kock, Com. Att. Frag. iii. p. 308.
[13]: A pious formula prefixed to important documents.
[14]: In 306 B.C.
[15]: During the same year, namely, 306 B.C.
[16]: In 305-304 B.C. The siege lasted about a year.
[17]: When Strabo wrote, during the reign of Augustus, the painting was still at Rhodes, where it had been seen and admired by Cicero (Orat. 2, 5); when the elder Pliny wrote, a generation or two later, it had been carried to Rome and placed in the temple of Peace (cf. Strabo, xiv. p. 652; Pliny, N.H. xxxv. 10, 36).
[18]: Since the Athenians had made him a Saviour-god.
[19]: Early in 303 B.C.
[20]: Although both Eurydice and Phila were still living.
[21]: Part of the fragment cited at xii. 4.
[22]: See chapter xx. 4.
[23]: The name of a fabulous monster reputed to eat men’s flesh.
[24]: Late in 302 B.C.
[25]: The watchword should have been Alexander and Victory.
[26]: Near the village of Ipsus, in Phrygia, 301 B.C.
[27]: The rich temple of Artemis (Diana).
[28]: The Thracian Chersonesus, the modern Gallipoli.
[29]: The passage cannot be determined.
[30]: In 297 B.C.
[31]: A hill S.W. of the Acropolis.
[32]: Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag.2 p. 107 (μ’ ἔφυσας).
[33]: Fragment 93 (Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graeci, ii.4 p. 410).
[34]: The Greek of the parenthesis is hopelessly corrupt.
[35]: In 294 B.C.
[36]: Fragment 2 (Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graeci, iii.4 pp. 88 ff.).
[37]: In 293 B.C.
[38]: Cf. chapter xxi. 1.
[39]: In 290 B.C. The siege lasted nearly a year.
[40]: Cassander began the restoration of the city (after its utter annihilation by Alexander in 335 B.C.) in 315 B.C.
[41]: Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graeci, iii.4 p. 622. Cf. the Agesilaüs, xiv. 2.
[42]: Bergk, op. cit. i.4 p. 439.
[43]: Iliad, i. 238 f.
[44]: Minos, Odyssey, xix. 179.
[45]: In the spring of 294 B.C.
[46]: From 394 to 287 B.C.
[47]: Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag.2 p. 315.
[48]: Bacchae, 4 f., with adaptation from the first person.
[49]: See chapter x. 3.
[50]: See chapter xliii. 3.
[51]: As early as 301 B.C. Cf. chapter xxxii. 3.
[52]: From 386 to 383 B.C.
[53]: Cf. chapter xxxix. 3.
[54]: Cf. chapter xxv. 2.