4
So as to look modest and be "Ingenui vultus pueri, ingenuique pudoris."
5
Reading with Salmasius, ἀναβαλεῐν.
6
Herodotus, iv. 2. The historian, however, assigns other reasons for blinding them.
7
A line from "Odyssey," xv. 323.
8
"Malim δαιτυμόνας." Wyttenbach, who remarks generally on this short treatise, "Non integra videtur esse nec continua disputatio, sed disputationis, Plutarcheæ tamen, excerptum compendium."