This is the reading of Reiske and Dübner.

That is mild. Zeus is so called, Pausanias, i. 37; ii. 9, 20.

That is, fierce, furious. It will be seen I adopt the suggestion of Reiske.

Literally "is silent about." It is like the saying about Von Moltke that he can be silent in six or seven languages.

Adopting Reiske's reading.

Compare Pausanias, iv. 8.

Dübner puts this sentence in brackets.

Or strigils.

Anticyra was famous for its hellebore, which was prescribed in cases of madness. See Horace, "Satires," ii. 3. 82, 83.

A philosopher of Megara, and disciple of Socrates. Compare our author, "De Fraterno Amore," § xviii.

So Reiske. Dübner reads φόβου. The MSS. have φόνου, which Wyttenbach retains, but is evidently not quite satisfied with the text. Can