Adopting Reiske's reading.

Proverbial for extreme good fortune. Cf. Horace, "Odes," iii. ix. 4, "Persarum vigui rege beatior."

See Herodotus, iv. 72.

See the Fable Ἀλώπηξ και Πὰρδαλις. No. 42, Ed. Halme.

Reading with Wyttenbach, ὠχριάσεσι και ἐρυθήμασι.