[32] The Greek is, ὡς ἀνέπλαττε Πλάτων πεπλασμένα θαύματα εἰδώς.
[33] This figure was like a barbed arrow, according to Zevort.
[34] Herophilus was one of the most celebrated physicians of antiquity, who founded the Medical School at Alexandria, in the time of the first Ptolemy.
[35] Hom. Od. x. 387. Pope’s Version, 450.
[36] Perhaps there is a pun here; ἀστράγαλος means not only a knout composed of small bones strung together, but also a die.
[37] This is a quotation from some lost play of Euripides, slightly altered, the line, as printed in the Variorum Edition, vol. vii., Mc. Trag. cxxx. is—
ἀκόλαστα πάντα γίνεται, δούλων τέκνα.
[38] There is a pun here which is untranslateable. The Greek is πλὴν ὅταν τόκος παρῇ, meaning usury, and also offspring or delivery.
[39] Hom. Od. x. 335. Pope’s Version, 387.
[40] Hom. Il. vi. 211. Pope’s Version, 254.