[40] Cf. Soph Ant. 243 sqq.
[41] These two cities were in ruins in the time of Pausanias. See ix. 3. p. 714, ed. Kuhn.
[42] Cf. Athenæus, p. 40. B. Terent. Eun. iv. 5. "Sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus." Apul Met. ii. p. 119, ed. Elm. "Ecce, inquam, Veneris hortator et armiger Liber advenit ultro," where see Pricæus.
[43] More literally, perhaps, "keep it and be thankful."
[44] Theocrit. i. 40. μεγα δικτυον ες βολον ‛ελκει.
[45] But εκ των απειλων conveys a notion of change = instead of.
[46] Elmsley remarks that ανθρωποισι belongs to both members of the sentence. I have therefore supplied. The sense may be illustrated from Hippol. 5 sq.
[47] See Matthiæ.
[48] i.e. step. This is ridiculed by Aristoph. Ran. 100, where the Scholiast quotes a similar example from our author's Alexandra.
[49] Compare Havercamp on Lucret. ii. sub init.