³⁵ yudno/j=yudro/j-which, however, occurs nowhere but here-is adopted as preferable to yedno/j (bald), which yields no sense, or yuxro/j. Sylburgius ms.. Paris; Ruhnk reads yudro/j.

³⁶ A mistake for Herodotus.

³⁷ Instead of Maraqwni/tai, as in the text, we read from Thucydides Maraqw=ni/ te.

³⁸ Puti/h (not, as in the text, Poiti/nh, a flask covered with plaited osiers. The name of a comedy by Cratinus (Liddell and Scott's Lexicon). [Elucidation I.]

³⁹ Iliad, xii. 322, Sarpedon to Glaucus.

⁴⁰ Grotius's correction has been adopted, e0ggu/aj de\ zami/a, instead of e\ggu/a de\ zami/aj.

⁴¹ In the text before In Hexameters we have thrh/sei, which has occasioned much trouble to the critics. Although not entirely satisfactory, yet the most probable is the correction qe/lousi, as above.

⁴² Iliad, xvii. 53.

⁴³ i.e., Polyphemus, Odyss., ix. 372.

⁴⁴ According to the correction of Casaubon, who, instead of a0raro/twj of the text, reads 'Ararw/j. Others ascribed the comedy to Aristophanes himself.

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