[1]: Il. VI 130.
[2]: See. Il. XX. 57.
[3]: From Aeschylus. The whole passage is quoted in Plato’s Republic, end of Book II. (G.)
[4]: From Aeschylus. The whole passage is quoted in Plato’s Republic, end of Book II. (G.)
[5]: Il. V. 352.
[6]: Odyss. XVIII. 333.
[7]: Il. XX. 242; Hesiod, Works and Days, 313.
[8]: Il. XX. 242; Hesiod, Works and Days, 313.
[9]: Il. IV. 357. For the four following, see Il. IX. 34 and 70; IV. 431; X. 325.
[10]: Il. III. 320; XVI. 233.
[11]: From the Aeolus of Euripides, Frag. 19.
[12]: From Menander.
[13]: The word here used (ὀρτυγοκπεῖν) denotes a game among the Grecians, which Suidas describes to be the setting of quails in a round compass or ring, and striking at the heads of them; and he that in the ring struck down one had liberty to strike at the rest in order, but he that missed was obliged to set up quails for others; and this they did by turns.
[14]: Il. III. 39; XVII. 142.
[15]: Il. XXI. 331.