A title applied to Apollo first by Herodotus, i. 91, from his ambiguous (λοξά) oracles.

Part of the words of an oracle of the Pythian Priestess, slightly changed. The whole oracle may be seen in Herodotus, i. 47.

Reading ἐξερᾰσθαι with Dübner.

Catullus calls him "tumidus," i.e. long-winded, 95, 10. See also Propertius, iii. 34-32. He was a Greek poet, a contemporary of Socrates and Plato, and author of a Thebaid. Pausanias mentions him, viii. 25; ix. 35.

A proverbial expression for having no judgment. See Sophocles, Fragm. 307; Plato, "Charmides," 154 B; Erasmus, "Adagia." So we say a person's mind is a blank sheet on a subject he knows nothing about.

Euripides, Fragm. 202. Quoted also by Plato, "Gorgias," 484 E.

Reading with Reiske, μισθὸν αὑτῷ δοῦναι τῷ μικρὸν σιωπῆσαι μὴ δυνάμενος.

A celebrated Greek historian, and pupil of Isocrates. See Cicero, "De Oratore," ii. 13.

Of Tarsus. See Cicero, "De Officiis," iii. 12.