[1]: As Priam admired Achilles, Iliad, xxiv. 630.
[2]: An iambic trimeter from the Tympanistae of Sophocles (Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag.2, p. 270).
[3]: In the MSS. this Introduction stands as the first chapter of the Aemilius Paulus.
[4]: See the Dion, chapter lvii. This was in 354 B.C.
[5]: 346 B.C.
[6]: Syracuse was founded by Corinthians in 735 B.C.
[7]: Perhaps between 368 and 366 B.C.
[8]: As they had at hands of the Argives in 393 B.C.
[9]: Diodorus (xvi. 65, 4) says that Timoleon slew his brother with his own hand in the market place; Nepos (Timoleon, i. 4) supports Plutarch’s account, though with differing details.
[10]: See the Phocion, xxiii. 4.
[11]: Won by the allied Greeks under Leosthenes over Antipater of Macedonia, in 323 B.C. The victory was soon followed by the defeat of the Greeks at Crannon.
[12]: In 344 B.C.
[13]: The false friend of Dion (Dion, chapters liv-lvii.)
[14]: Cf. the Dion, xlviii. 3; xlix. 1. f.
[15]: There is nothing in the Dion to justify this statement. The cruelties described were committed by the revolting people of Locri, to whom Dionysius had made himself odious during his residence there from 356 to 346 B.C. Cf. Athenaeus, p. 541 c-e.
[16]: On his voyage from Syracuse to Corinth.
[17]: To show that no weapon was concealed there.
[18]: Plato died in 348 B.C.; Dionysius came to Corinth in 343 B.C.
[19]: The Greek of this sentence is obscure, and has thus far defied emendation.
[20]: See the Dion, chapter liii. 1.
[21]: In 480 B.C., on the same day, it is said, as the victory at Salamis. Cf. Herodotus, vii. 166.
[22]: Cf. chapter xxii. 3.
[23]: It was early in June, 339 B.C.
[24]: In the spring of 338 B.C.
[25]: This was at the beginning of the second so-called Sacred War, 356 B.C.
[26]: An adaptation of Euripides, Medeia, 215 (Kirchhoff), where Medea speaks to the chorus in the first person.
[27]: Chapter lviii. 4.
[28]: Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag.2 p. 316.
[29]: 346-338 B.C.
[30]: In 337 or 336 B.C.