See Pausanias, vii. 27; Athenæus, 372 A.

A former king of Thebes. See Pausanias, ix. 5.

Called Daiphantes, Pausanias, x. 1.

Reading ἀπίστοις with Xylander.

The famous plague. See Thucydides, ii. 47-54.

The allusion is to the circumstances mentioned in § xii.