See Euripides, "Hippolytus," 7, 8.

Here the story unfortunately ends, and for all time we shall know no more of it. Reiske somewhat forcibly says, "Vel lippus videat Gorgus historiam non esse finitam, et multa, ut et alias, periisse."

Like Reiske we condense here a little.

Reading with Reiske ὀρθῆς και ἀθρύπτου.

I read εἰ γἁρ.

See "Iliad," xxiii. 295. Podargus was an entire horse.

See Ovid, "Metamorph." iii. 206-208.

A very favourite proverb among the ancients. See Plat. "Phaedr." fin. Martial, ii. 43.

On Lais, see Pausanias, ii. 2. Her Thessalian lover is there called Hippostratus. Her favours were so costly that the famous proverb is said to owe its origin to her, "Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum."

The Ægean and Ionian. Cf. Horace, "Odes," i. 7, 2.