An allusion to Euripides, "Bacchæ," 317, 318.

Reading with Reiske οὐδένι λόγῳ δὲ, or ἀλόγως δὲ. Some such reading seems necessary to comport with the τί γὰρ ἀλογώτερον two lines later.

Reading παρεῖχες with Xylander.

A great craving for sympathy would be the modern way of putting it.

See the Fable of Æsop, entitled Πένθους γερας, No. 355. Halme. See also Plutarch's "Consolation to Apollonius," § xix., where the Fable is told at some length.

Reading with Reiske οὐκ ἂν εἰπεῖν φοβηθείην.

An allusion to Euripides, "Andromache," 930. See Plutarch's "Conjugal Precepts," § xl.

The whole subject is discussed in full by Athenæus, p. 632, F. F. A false quantity we see was a bugbear even before the days of Universities.

Homer, "Iliad," v. 646; xxiii. 71.

This section is dreadfully corrupt. I have adopted, it will be seen, the suggestions of Wyttenbach.