5
There is some hopeless corruption in the text here. Nor has any one succeeded in making it intelligible. The French translator divides it into two maxims.
6
There in some great corruption here again. The French translator takes 19, 20, and 21 all as one.
Additional notes
1
One of the Sporades.
2
An island near Crete.
3
Hom. Il. 2. 671. Dryden’s Version.