[242]. Of course many, perhaps most, of the commentators and scholiasts referred to in chaps. iv. and v. are Byzantine in date.
[243]. Ed. Bekker. Berlin, 1824. 2 vols. 4to, but paged continuously.
[244]. χάριτος καὶ ἡδονῆς ἀποστάζουσαι.
[245]. πυκνότης, which some would render “shrewdness.”
[246]. βρύων γλυκύτητος.
[247]. τῷ ἀρχαϊσμῷ καὶ ταῖς καινοπρεπεστέραις τῶν συντάξεων εμφιλοτιμουμενος.
[248]. εἰς ἰδιάζουσαν ἰδέαν ἐκβεβιασμένος.
[249]. It is odd to find the hatred of the harmless necessary parenthesis, the delight of all full minds and quick wits, and the terror of the ignorant and slow, formulated so frequently by Photius.
[250]. τὸ λεῖον ἔχει τῷ μεγέθει συγκιρνάμενον.