[1]: Il. II. 554.
[2]: It was said that all the people in the island Myconus were bald; hence the proverb μία Μύκονος, all of a piece. (G.)
[3]: Il. XII. 311.
[4]: Il. XX. 15.
[5]: Il. XXIV. 100.
[6]: Hesiod, Works and Days, 26.
[7]: It seems absolutely necessary to read τρίτῃ for πρώτῃ here, to make the description intelligible, and to avoid inconsistency. See Becker’s Gallus, III, p. 209. (G.)
[8]: See Odyss. VI. 137, 218, 226.
[9]: Eurip. Antiope, Frag. 183.
[10]: Soph. Oed. Colon. 510.
[11]: Soph. Oed. Tyr. 385.
[12]: The whole line, from some unknown tragic poet, is Κακῶν γὰρ ἄρχεις τήνδε Μοῦσαν εἰσάμγων. See Athenaeus, XIV. p. 616 C. (G.)
[13]: Referring to the saying ἐν Καρὶ κινδυνεύειν, experimentum facere in corpore vili. (G.)
[14]: Il. III. 375.
[15]: Eurip. Phoeniss. 536.
[16]: Odyss. XXI. 35.
[17]: Odyss. XX. 69.
[18]: Il. XXIII. 190.
[19]: Il. XVIII. 495.
[20]: The Greek text here is badly mutilated. (G.)
[21]: The remainder of the Fourth Book is wanting.
[22]: Il. XXIII. 886.
[23]: Il. IX. 325.
[24]: Hesiod, Theog. 116.
[25]: Il. IX. 214.
[26]: Il. XXII. 325-329.
[27]: Il. II. 409.
[28]: Works and Days, 342.
[29]: Il. VII. 324.
[30]: For an account of the belief that Plato was the son of Apollo, not of Aristo, and the vision of Apollo said to have appeared to Aristo, see Diogenes Laertius, III. 1, 1. (G.)
[31]: Il. XXIV. 258.
[32]: Works and Days, 595.
[33]: Il. XI. 86.
[34]: Odyss. X. 356.
[35]: Odyss. XII. 329-332.
[36]: Plutarch seems to give this meaning to the Homeric phrase ἐν καρὸς αἴσῃ (II. IX. 378) usually interpreted at a hair’s worth, or like unto death (as Aristarchus understood it, taking καρός for κηρός). See the Scholia on the passage of the Iliad. (G.)
[37]: Works and Days, 11.
[38]: Il. XVIII 356.
[39]: Eurip. Orest. 271.
[40]: Odyss. V. 306.
[41]: Soph. Electra, 2.
[42]: Hesiod, Works and Days, 763.
[43]: Odyss. X. 72.
[44]: What follows, to the beginning of Question XIII., is omitted in the old editions of this translation. (G.)
[45]: Il. IV. 13.
[46]: Il. VII. 69.
[47]: Il. III. 450.
[48]: Odyss. X. 38.
[49]: From Simonides.
[50]: The fragments of Simonides may be found in Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Gr. pp. 879, 880 (Nos. 29, 30, 31). They are too mutilated to be translated (G.)