Xenophon, "Agesilaus," xi. 5. p. 673 C.

To filch the grain from the bin or granary would not of course be so important a theft as to steal the seed-stock preserved for sowing. So probably Cato, "De Re Rustica," v. § iv.: "Segetem ne defrudet," sc. villicus.

Thucydides, iii. 82.

Plato, "Republic," v. p. 474 E. Compare also Lucretius, iv. 1160-1170; Horace, "Satires," i. 3. 38 sq.

This Ptolemy was a votary of Cybele, and a spiritual ancestor of General Booth. The worship of Cybele is well described by Lucretius, ii. 598-643.

This was Ptolemy Auletes, as the former was Ptolemy Philopator.

See Suetonius, "Nero," ch. 21.

"Plerumque minuta voce cantillare."—Wyttenbach. What Milton would have called "a lean and flashy song."

Naso suspendit adunco, as Horace, "Sat." i. 6. 5.

See Athenæus, p. 434 C.