See Plutarch's Lysander.

Or symposium, where all sorts of liberties were taken.

I have softened his phrase. His actual words were very coarse, and would naturally be resented by Ptolemy. See Athenæus, 621, A.

See "Iliad," v. 83; xvi. 334; xx, 477.

A fragment from the "Dictys" of Euripides.

"Republ." v. 463, F. sq.

Cf. Shakespeare's "Winter Tale," Act iii. sc. iii. 59-63.

As Horace's father did. See "Satires," Book i. Sat. iv. 105-129.

What we call black sheep.

From Simonides. Cf. Seneca, "Epist." xlix. "Punctum est quod vivimus, et adhuc puncto minus."

Reading with Wyttenbach, ὡς ἐκ λογικῆς τέχνης.