On Acro-Corinthus, see Pausanias, ii. 4. The words in inverted commas are from Euripides, Fragm. 921.

On Lais generally, and her end, see Athenæus, xiii. 54, 55.

See § I. The Festival of Love was being kept at this very time.

This story is also told by Plutarch, "De Mulierum Virtutibus," § xx.

A Delphic word for love. Can it be connected with ἅρμα?

Very frequent in Homer, e.g., "Iliad," ii. 232; vi, 165; xiii. 636: xiv. 353, etc.

See Lucretius, iv. 1105-1114. I tone down the original here a little.

This means when the moustache and beard and whiskers begin to grow.

The whole story about Harmodius and Aristogiton and how they killed Hipparchus is told by Thucydides, vi. 54-59. Bion therefore practically called these sprouting beards tyrant-killers, tyrannicides.

"Scriptus igitur hic libellus est post caedem Domitiani."—Reiske.