[Footnote 11: Verb supplied by Xylander.]
[Footnote 12: Possibly a reference to the opening of Book Fifty-four.
(Boissée.)]
[Footnote 13: Compare Xenophon, Cyropædia, VIII, 4, 5.]
[Footnote 14: The three words after "kill" are on the basis of a suggestion made by Boissevain. The MS. has a gap of some fifteen letters.]
[Footnote 15: Emendation by Mommsen.]
[Footnote 16: Compare Book Fifty-three, chapter 14.]
[Footnote 17: His true name was Archelaus.]
[Footnote 18: Cp. Suetonius, Life of Augustus, chapter 23.]
[Footnote 19: At this point in the codex Marcianus four leaves have been lost.]