[1]: One of the Fragmenta Incerta (Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graeci, i(4). p. 450).
[2]: Kock, Com. Att. Frag. ii. p. 576.
[3]: See Plut. Nic. 13.2.
[4]: Aristot. Const. Ath. 28.5.
[5]: The high boot of early tragic actors, which could be worn on either foot.
[6]: 429 B.C.
[7]: An iambic trimeter from an unknown comic poet (;Kock, Com. Att. Frag., iii. p. 400).
[8]: Bronze tripods were awarded as prizes to the victorious choregi in the dithyrambic choral contests.
[9]: About £40, or $2000, with four or five times the present purchasing power of money.
[10]: Thuc. 7.50.4
[11]: Not extant.
[12]: From a play of unknown name. Kock, Com. Att. Frag. i. p. 219.
[13]: A caricature of the demagogue Hyperbolus. Kock, Com. Att. Frag. i. p. 308.
[14]: Knights, 358. It is not Cleon, but his adversary, the rampant sausage-seller, who utters the verse.
[15]: From a play of unknown name. Kock, Com. Att. Frag. i. p. 385.
[16]: Seven fragments appear in Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graeci, iii(;4).pp. 262 ff.
[17]: Cf. Plut. Per. 11.5.
[18]: Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis
[19]: Plut. Per. 35.4
[20]: Cf. Plut. Per. 4.1-2.
[21]: He was tried and executed for participation in the revolution of the Four Hundred (411 B.C.)
[22]: In 427 B.C. (Thuc. 3.28).
[23]: An error for Callias, who lost his life before Potidaea in 432 B.C. (;Thuc. 3.63). In 429, Xenophon was defeated and killed, with his two colleagues (;Thuc. 2.79).
[24]: In 426 B.C. (;Thuc. 3.91-98).
[25]: In 424 B.C. (;Thuc. 4.89-101).
[26]: Cf. Plut. Per. 34.3 f.
[27]: In 424 B.C. (;Thuc. 4.53-55).
[28]: In 423 B.C. (;Thuc. 4.129-133).
[29]: In 427 B.C. (;Thuc 3.51).
[30]: This, on the contrary, was the exploit of Demosthenes in 424 B.C. (;Thuc. 4.66-69).
[31]: In 425 B.C. (;Thuc. 4.42.1, and Thuc. 4.44).
[32]: In 424 B.C. (;Thuc. 4.54).
[33]: In 425 B.C. The Pylos episode is narrated at great length by Thucydides (;Thuc. 4.2-41).
[34]: Verses 638 f.
[35]: This play is not extant. Kock, Com. Att. Frag. i. p. 416.
[36]: Odyssey, iv. 230.
[37]: In the autumn of 422 B.C. Cf. Thuc. 5.8-11.
[38]: The first verse of a beautiful fragment of the Erechtheus of Euripides; (Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag.(2) p. 474).
[39]: Cf. Thuc. 5.26.
[40]: Signed in the spring of 421 B.C.
[41]: Cf. Thuc. 5.18.
[42]: In the spring of 419 B.C.
[43]: A proverb in hexameter verse, attributed to Callimachus, the Alexandrian poet and scholar (310-235 B.C.).
[44]: Probably in 417 B.C.
[45]: 488-487 B.C.
[46]: In the spring of 415 B.C.
[47]: In an oasis of the Libyan desert. Cf. Plut. Cim. 18.6 f.
[48]: In 353 B.C. See Plut. Dion 54-57.
[49]: See the Plut. Alc. 21.1.
[50]: In the spring of 414 B.C.. as described in Thuc. 6.97.
[51]: A triangular plateau, rising gradually to the westwards of Syracuse, visible from the interior of the city, and surrounded by precipitous cliffs.
[52]: Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graeci, ii (4) p. 265.
[53]: The captives of Sphacteria (;Plut. Nic. 8.1), two hundred and ninety-two in number (;Thuc. 4.38.5).
[54]: Cf. Thuc. 7.11-15.
[55]: A promontory which runs out opposite the city of Syracuse, and narrows the entrance into the great harbor.
[56]: Thuc. 7.36-41. The Syracusan crews took their meal close by their ships, and then suddenly re-embarked and attacked the Athenians, who supposed there would be no more fighting that day, and were taken unawares.
[57]: About mid-summer, 413 B.C.
[58]: Perhaps in 340 B.C., when Philip of Macedon was besieging Byzantium. Leon was a rhetorician and historian.
[59]: Not far from 411 B.C.
[60]: About 432 B.C. See Plut. Per. 32.3.
[61]: In the spring of 399 B.C.
[62]: In 357 B.C. See Plut. Dion 24.
[63]: Minutely described, day by day, in Thuc. 7.78-85.
[64]: Plut. Lys. 16 f.
[65]: Thuc. 7.86.2