Like the character described in Lucretius, ii. 1-6.

Sophocles, "Trachiniae," 497. The Cyprian Queen is, of course, Aphrodite.

Hence the famous Proverb, "Non omnibus dormio." See Cic. "Ad. Fam." vii. 24.

Above, in § xiii.

See Sophocles, "Antigone," 783, 784. And compare Horace, "Odes," Book iv. Ode xiii. 6-8, "Ille virentis et Doctæ psallere Chiæ Pulchris excubat in genis."

The "Niobe," which exists only in a few fragments.

This was the name of Dionysius' Poem. He was a Corinthian poet.

Reading according to the conjecture of Wyttenbach, ὡς τὸν Ἔρωτα υὁνον ἀήττητον ὄντα τῶν στρατηγῶν.

Something has probably dropped out here, as Dübner suspects.

Anytus was one of the accusers of Socrates, and so one of the causers of his death. So Horace calls Socrates "Anyti reum," "Sat." ii. 4, 3.