ὲπιτρίβω is used in the same sense by Demosthenes, p. 288.

On such social pests see Juvenal, i. 1-14.

See Pausanias, i. 2. Euripides left Athens about 409 B.C., and took up his abode for good in Macedonia at the court of Archelaus, where he died 406 B.C.

For a drachma was only worth 6 obols, or 9¾d. of our money, nearly = Roman denarius.

A talent was 6,000 drachmæ, or 36,000 obols, about £243 15s. of our money.

"Olynth." iii. p. 33, § 19.