I read κατηφείαν.

The story of Phäethon is a very well-known one, and is recorded very fully by Ovid in the "Metamorphoses," Book ii.

Supplying φυτῶν with Reiske.

In Cyprus. Zeno was the founder of the Stoics.

Zeno and his successors taught in the Piazza at Athens called the Painted Piazza. See Pausanias, i. 15.

Pindar, Nem. iv. 6.

Euripides, "Bacchæ," 66.

As will be seen, I follow Wyttenbach's guidance in this very corrupt passage, which is a true crux.

Reading δεδορκότες.

See "On Curiosity," § i.