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.

"Videtur idem cum sorita esse."—Reiske.

Compare our author, "De EI apud Delphos," § xviii. See also Seneca, "Epist.," lviii. p. 483; and Plato, "Cratylus," 402 A.

Sons of Dionysius.

Sons of Cassander.

"Iliad," vi. 146-149.

Compare Plato, "Phædrus," 276 B. These gardens of Adonis were what we might call flowerpot gardens. See Erasmus, "Adagia."

εὐθὺς seems the best reading, ἀεὶ is flat.