[1]: This Clea was priestess to Isis and to Apollo Delphicus.
[2]: That is, τὰ ὄντα in the Platonic sense, as opposed to τὰ γιγνόμενα. (G.)
[3]: Plutarch derives Isis, in the usual uncritical way of ancient etymology, from the Greek root ἰς— , found in ἴστε from οἶδα. (G.)
[4]: That is, τετυφωμένος. (G.)
[5]: From Empedocles.
[6]: See Odyss. VI. 12; Il. XIII. 810; V. 438; IV. 31.
[7]: Hesiod, Works and Days, 126.
[8]: Odyss. VIII. 340.
[9]: From Aratus.
[10]: He alludes to Homer, who feigns Jupiter to have in his house two differing jars, the one filled with good things, and the other with bad. See Il. XXIV. 527.
[11]: Il. XVIII. 107.
[12]: Il. VIII. 22.
[13]: If we adopt Bentley’s emendation ἀνεπήρωσε for ἀνεπλήρωσε, we must translate, did not abolish, but merely maimed, the corruptible faculty. (G.)
[14]: See the preceding essay, § 86.
[15]: Most of the absurd etymologies proposed in this chapter are actually to be found in Plato’s Cratylus, from p. 401 C to p. 415 E. (G.)
[16]: The usual emendation for εὑροῦσι (which the MSS. give) is εὐροοῦσι. But Plato (Crat. 415 D) derives ἀρετή from τὸ ἀσχέτως καὶ τὸ ἀκωλύτως ἀεὶ ῥέον, from which he supposes a form ἀειρέτη to come, afterwards contracted into ἀρετή. I have therefore adopted the reading ἀεὶ ῥέουσι, and translated accordingly. (G.)
[17]: Euripides, Troad. 887.
[18]: Pindar, Olymp. I. 10.