The remark about Demosthenes has somehow slipped out, as Wyttenbach has suggested.

Does this refer to Πηληίαδεω before Ἀχιλῆος in "Iliad," i. 1?

An allusion to some passage in a Play that has not come down to us.

Compare our Author, De Audiendis Poetis, § xi. ὥσπερ ὁ Ἀγησίλαοσ οὐκ ὑπέμεινεν ὑπὸ τοῦ καλοῦ φιληθῆναι προσιόντος.

Reading with Madvig and Hercher, τὸ γὰρ αὺτὸν, sq.

Literally cork-like, so vain, empty. So Horace, "levior cortice," "Odes," iii. 9, 22.

Marks of a philosopher among the ancients. Compare our Author, "How one may discern a flatterer from a friend," § vii.

"Odyssey," xvi. 187.

"Turpe habitum fuisse in caupona conspici, et hoc exemplo apparet, et alia sunt indicia. Isocrates Orat. Areopagitica laudans antiquorum Atheniensium mores, p. 257: ἐν καπηλείῳ δὲ φαγεῖν ἢ πιεῖν οὐδεὶς ἃν οἰκέτης ἐπιεικὴς ἐτὸλμησε: quem locum citans Athenæus alia etiam adfert xiii. p. 566, F."—Wyttenbach.