[478] Derived from [Greek: pheidesthai], to save.
[479] The name Phidippides contains both words, [Greek: hippos], horse, and [Greek: pheidesthai], to save, and was therefore a compromise arrived at between the two parents.
[480] The heads of the family of the Alcmaeonidae bore the name of Megacles from generation to generation.
[481] A mountain in Attica.
[482] Aristophanes represents everything belonging to Socrates as being mean, even down to his dwelling.
[483] Crates ascribes the same doctrine in one of his plays to the Pythagorean Hippo, of Samos.
[484] This is pure calumny. Socrates accepted no payment.
[485] Here the poet confounds Socrates' disciples with the Stoics. Contrary to the text, Socrates held that a man should care for his bodily health.
[486] One of Socrates' pupils.
[487] Female footwear. They were a sort of light slipper and white in colour.