Reading μάλιστα (for μόλις) with Wyttenbach.

An allusion to the proverb Ὄψε θεῶν ἀλέουσι μύλοι, ἀλέουσι δὲ λεπτά. See Erasmus, "Adagia," p. 1864.

Cf. Plato, "Republic," 472 A.

See Note, "On Abundance of Friends," § ii.

Reading εἰ γὰρ.

Or a world.

See above, § ii.

It seems necessary to read either πορίζειν with Mez, or ὁρίζειν with Wyttenbach.

Compare Aristophanes, "Vespæ," 438.

See Pausanias, viii. 27.