[1]: One of the many friends whom Plutarch made during his residence at Rome. See on Theseus, i. 1.
[2]: Fragment 50; Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graeci, iii. 4 p. 412.
[3]: The Pericles was part of the tenth book (chapter ii. 3), the Demosthenes part of the fifth (chapter iii. 1). The ordinary arrangement of the Lives purely arbitrary.
[4]: In 405 B.C.
[5]: About 388 B.C., if this first visit is not a myth.
[6]: Epist. vii. p. 327.
[7]: Gelon had been tyrant of Syracuse 485-478 B.C.
[8]: Cf. chapter iii. 3.
[9]: In 367 B.C.
[10]: Epist. iv. ad fin.
[11]: Cf. the Coriolanus, xv. 4.
[12]: Epist. vii. p. 328.
[13]: Soon after 368 B.C.
[14]: Geometrical figures were traced in loose sand strewn upon the floor.
[15]: The upper city, as distinguished from the Piraeus.
[16]: Odyssey, xii. 428, with slight adaptation from the first person.
[17]: Epist. vii. p. 349 f.
[18]: For the first time; cf. chapter xvi. 3.
[19]: Cf. Epist. xiii. p. 362 ad fin.
[20]: 357 B.C.
[21]: Winds blowing steadily from the North during the summer.
[22]: The plateau west of the city of Syracuse. See the note on Nicias, xvii. 1.
[23]: An extension of the city, covering the eastern part of the plateau of Epipolae.
[24]: Syracuse was colonized from Corinth, in Peloponnesus.
[25]: See the Nicias, chapters xix. ff.
[26]: Epist. iv. p. 320: ὥστε τοὺς ἐξ ἁπάσης τῆς οἰκουμένης εἰς ἕνα τόπον ἀποβλέπειν, καὶ ἐν μάλιστα πρὸς σέ,
[27]: In chapter viii. 3.
[28]: Republic, viii. p. 557 d.
[29]: Epist. vi. p. 333.
[30]: 353 B.C.
[31]: Implying that Callippus had himself initiated Dion into the mysteries of Demeter.
[32]: Apparently the meaning in Sicilian Greek, of the word Catana. Callippus maintained himself in Syracuse only thirteen months.
[33]: Chapters xxxii. andxxxiii.