[71] Eurytion was another of the Centaurs, who was killed by Hercules.
[72] This is a pun on the similarity of the sound, Tegea, to τέγος, a brothel.
[73] The Greek is ἔρανον αἰτούμενος πρὸς τὸν ἐρανάρχην ἔφη,—ἔρανος was not only a subscription or contribution for the support of the poor, but also a club or society of subscribers to a common fund for any purpose, social, commercial, or charitable, or especially political.… On the various ἔρανοι, v. Böckh, P. E. i. 328. Att. Process. p. 540, s. 99. L. & S. in voc. ἔρανος.
[74] Hom. Il. Γ. 65.
[75] There is a pun here; κόρη means both “a girl” and “the pupil of the eye.” And φθείρω, “to destroy,” is also especially used for “to seduce.”
[76] This is a parody on Homer. Il. 591. Pope’s Version, 760.
[77] Hom. Il. Σ. 395. Pope’s version, 460.
[78] This line is from the Bacchæ of Euripides, v. 1228.
[79] From this last paragraph it is inferred by some critics, that originally the preceding memoirs of Crates, Metrocles, and Hipparchia formed only one chapter or book.
[80] This a parody on two lines in the Antiope of Euripides: