[1]: 323-322 B.C. See the Demosthenes, xxvii. 1.
[2]: A brother of Arybas, and therefore uncle of Aeacides.
[3]: In 302 B.C.
[4]: A grandson of the Neoptolemus mentioned in chapter ii. 1.
[5]: See the Demetrius, xxv. 2.
[6]: In 301 B.C. Cf. the Demetrius, chapters xxviii. f.
[7]: Cf. the Demetrius, xxxi. 2.
[8]: An obscure Macedonian.
[9]: Cf. the Demetrius, xxxvi. 1 f.
[10]: Cf. the Demetrius, xxxvi. 2-6, xxxvii.
[11]: Cf. the Demetrius, xl. i.
[12]: Cf. the Demetrius, xli. 1 f.
[13]: Cf. the Demetrius, xli. 2.
[14]: Cf. the Demetrius, xli. 3.
[15]: See the Alexander, iv. 1.
[16]: The book containing the Lives of Epaminondas and Scipio Africanus the Elder has been lost.
[17]: The story is found also in Plutarch’s Morals, p. 184 d, and in Val. Max. 5, 1, ext. 3.
[18]: Euripides, Phoenissae, 68.
[19]: Cf. the Demetrius, xliv. 1.
[20]: At the battle of Ipsus, 301 B.C. Cf. the Demetrius, chapter xliv.
[21]: Cf. chapter xi.
[22]: Iliad, i. 491 f.
[23]: Cf. Dionysius Hal., Excerpta ex lib. xix., 8.
[24]: In the summer of 281 B.C.
[25]: Cf. Dionysius Hal., Excerpta ex lib. xix., 12.
[26]: Referring sarcastically to his relations with Ptolemy and Demetrius.
[27]: The chronology of the story is at fault here. Fabricius and Aemilius were consuls in 278, the year after the battle at Asculum described in §§ 5 ff.
[28]: Auxiliaries of the Romans from Arpinum in Apulia.
[29]: The son of Ptolemy I. of Egypt. In 280 B.C. he had basely assassinated Seleucus, and made himself king of Macedonia.
[30]: Early in the year 278 B.C.
[31]: As in Iliad, v. 185; vi. 101; ix. 238.
[32]: Cf. Dionysius Hal., Excerpta ex lib. xx., 8.
[33]: In the autumn of 276 B.C.
[34]: Late in the year 274 B.C.
[35]: In 272 B.C.
[36]: An adaptation of Iliad, xii. 243, by substituting Pyrrhus for one’s country (Πύρρου for πάτρης).
[37]: A gymnasium just outside the city towards the East.
[38]: Cf. Pausanias ii. 19, 3.
[39]: De travers tout au beau milieu de la porte (Amyot).
[40]: Cf. Pausanias, ii. 22, 8.