[445] Already mentioned; one of the chiefs of the popular party in 406 B.C.
[446] Heracles had carried of Cerberus.
[447] Names of Thracian slaves.
[448] As was done to unruly children; he allows every kind of torture with the exception of the mildest.
[449] A deme of Attica, where there was a temple to Heracles. No doubt those present uttered the cry "Oh! oh!" in honour of the god.
[450] He pretends it was not a cry of pain at all, but of astonishment and admiration.
[451] Pretending that it was the thorn causing him pain, and not the lash of the whip.
[452] According to the Scholiast this is a quotation from the 'Laocoon,' a lost play of Sophocles.
[453] A general known for his cowardice; he was accused of not being a citizen, but of Thracian origin; in 406 B.C. he was in disfavour, and he perished shortly after in a popular tumult.
[454] According to Athenian law, the accused was acquitted when the voting was equal.