Footnotes

[1.]A word conveying at once “welcome!” and “farewell!”[2.]The chief magistrate of an Attic commune.[3.]Attic law allowed a husband to will his wife to a friend.[4.]A kind of grasshopper peculiar to Greece.[5.]A kind of beetle common in Greece.[6.]“Give herself airs.”[7.]The police magistrates of Athens.[8.]A number, of course, grossly exaggerated.[9.]A pottage peculiar to Sparta, made of lumps of meat, salt, and much vinegar.[10.]Equivalent to crying “Hound!” in English.[11.]The serfs of the Spartans.[12.]The Phœnician Hercules.[13.]Nearly two hundred miles.[14.]Approximately September.[15.]A division in the Spartan army.[16.]Who in full force had joined the Persians.[17.]The rack.