[1]: The Greek κλείς (clavis), a key, signifies also the collar-bone, (G.)
[2]: Il. V. 340.
[3]: Μὴ σποῦδε γῆμαι, πρὶν τελευτήσαντ’ ἴδῃς. From Sophocles’s Tyro, Frag. 596.
[4]: Aesch. Sept. 591.
[5]: Σῆμα δ᾽οὐκ ἐπῆν κύκλω Οὐ γὰρ δοκεῖν ἄριστος ἀλλ᾽εἶναι θέλει, Βαθεῖαν ἄλοκα διὰ φρενὸς καρπούμενος, Ἐξ ἦς τὰ κεδνὰ βλαστάνει βοθλεύματα. Aesch. Sept. 591. Thus the passage stands in all MSS, of Aeschylus; but it is quoted by Plutarch in his Life of Aristides, § 3, with δίκαιος in the second verse in the place of ἄριστος. It has been plausibly conjectured, that the actor who spoke the part intentionally substituted the word δίκαιος as a compliment to Aristides, on seeing him in a conspicuous place among the spectators. See Hermann’s note on the passage in his edition of Aeschylus. (G.)
[6]: See Odyss. X. 495.
[7]: Ἠλθον, εἶδον, ἐνίκησα, veni, vidi, vici.
[8]: It is doubtful what amount is here intended by Plutarch. If sesterces are understood, the amount is much less than it is commonly stated; and even if we understand drachmas (or denarii), we shall still fall below the amount commonly given, which is 700,000,000 sesterces (or about $28,000,000). See, for example, Veil Paterc. II. 60, 4: Sestertium septiens miliens. (G.)