^{page 20 note 1} So Meineke; other commentators do not explain

^{page 20 note 2} Ar. Eccl. 13.

^{page 20 note 3} Ar. Thesm. 216.

^{page 20 note 4} Od. ix. 389.

^{page 20 note 5} Cic. Tusc. v. 20. 58.

^{page 21 note 1} VII. 56; cf. 102, III. 17.

^{page 21 note 2} XI, 15, XXX, 10.

^{page 22 note 1} The older vulgate was ᾂδωμεν: αὐδ⋯μεν Cholmeley, αιδώμεθ Edmonds. All these are open to the same objection as κλείωμεν.

^{page 22 note 2} It is unnecessary for this purpose ot discuss the relation of Aratus to Theocritus since the eentiment does not seem to have originated with either. One scholiast ascribes it to Orpheus: cf. Hes. Th. 48, Theogn. 2.

^{page 23 note 1} Mem. III. 14. 6.

^{page 23 note 2} For this omission we may compare Pl. Legg. 758B τ⋯ δωδέκατον μὐτ⋯ν ⋯πί δώδεκα μ⋯νας νείμαντας έν ⋯ϕ νί, with Soph γ⋯ρ αῠτη γιγνομένη δ⋯λον δτι τ⋯ν διδασκαλικ⋯γ δύο ⋯ναγκάζει μόρια ἒχειν ⋯ν ⋯ϕ ⋯ν⋯ γένει τ⋯ν αὐγ⋯ς, ⋯κατέρψ.