Compare "On Curiosity," § x.

The reading is very doubtful. I adopt ἡδονῆς μὲν εὐθὑς κενιν χάριν, ἐλπίδος ἔρημον εὑρίσκουσι.

See Herodotus, vi. 86; Juvenal, xiii, 199-207.

The company are in the temple at Delphi, be it remembered.

Called Iadmon in Herodotus, ii. 134, where this story is also told.

Wyttenbach suggests Daulis.

To Xerxes.

The allusion is to the well-known story of Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus, who is supposed to have dwelt in the island of Sicily, where Agathocles was tyrant.

See Pausanias, viii. 14.

Two were to be sent for 1,000 continuous years. So the Oracle.

See Pausanias ix. 30; Herodotus, v. 6.