Notes

See article Plutarch, in Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ninth Edition.

Grosart's Herrick, vol. i. p. liii. See in this volume, p. 180, and also note to p. 288. Richard Baxter again is always quoting the Moralia.

Euripides, "Here. Fur." 1261, 1262.

Euripides, "Hippol." 424, 425.

Cleophantus is the name given to this lad by other writers.

Compare Sophocles, "Œdipus Tyrannus," 112, 113.

The Thessalians were very pugnacious. Cf. Isocrates, "Oratio de Pace," p. 316. οἱ μὲν (θετταλοὶ) σφίσιν αύσῖς ἀτοῖς ἀεὶ πολεμοῦσιν.

A proverbial expression among the ancients for earliest childhood. See Erasmus, "Adagia."