[283] The Chians were the most faithful allies of Athens, and hence their name was always mentioned in prayers, decrees, etc.
[284] Verses sung by maidens.
[285] This ceremony took place on the tenth day after birth, and may be styled the pagan baptism.
[286] Hiero, tyrant of Syracuse.—This passage is borrowed from Pindar.
[287] [Greek: Hierón] in Greek means sacrifice.
[288] A parody of poetic pathos, not to say bathos.
[289] Which the priest was preparing to sacrifice.
[290] Orneae, a city in Argolis ([Greek: ornis] in Greek means a bird). It was because of this similarity in sound that the prophet alludes to Orneae.
[291] Noted Athenian diviner, who, when the power was still shared between Thucydides and Pericles, predicted that it would soon be centred in the hands of the latter; his ground for this prophecy was the sight of a ram with a single horn.
[292] No doubt another Athenian diviner, and possibly the same person whom Aristophanes names in 'The Knights' and 'The Wasps' as being a thief.