[273] Because the war of the Titans against the gods was only a fiction of the poets.
[274] A sacred cloth, with which the statue of Athené in the Acropolis was draped.
[275] Meaning, to be patron-goddess of the city. Athené had a temple of this name.
[276] An Athenian effeminate, frequently ridiculed by Aristophanes.
[277] This was the name of the wall surrounding the Acropolis.
[278] i.e. the fighting-cock.
[279] To waken the sentinels, who might else have fallen asleep.—There are several merry contradictions in the various parts of this list of injunctions.
[280] In allusion to the leather strap which flute-players wore to constrict the cheeks and add to the power of the breath. The performer here no doubt wore a raven's mask.
[281] Hellanicus, the Mitylenian historian, tells that this surname of Artemis is derived from Colaenus, King of Athens before Cecrops and a descendant of Hermes. In obedience to an oracle he erected a temple to the goddess, invoking her as Artemis Colaenis (the Artemis of Colaenus).
[282] This Cleocritus, says the Scholiast, was long-necked and strutted like an ostrich.