[9]. Stat. Theb. i. 543.
[10]. Virg. Ecl. iii. 46.
[11]. Schreiber, Alexandr. Toreutik, passim; Robert in 50tes Winckelmannsfestprogr. 1890.
[12]. Suet. Ner. 47: see Vol. I. pp. [134], [185], [499].
[13]. Cf. Miss Harrison, Mythol. and Monum. of Athens, p. ii; and see Vol. I. p. [13].
[14]. See on this subject J.H.S. xiii. p. 83.
[15]. Art. Poet. 147.
[16]. See Luckenbach in Jahrb. für Class. Phil. Suppl.-Bd. xi. (1880), p. 575 ff.
[17]. Op. cit. p. 493 ff.
[18]. The only exceptions are in the Panathenaic contests, which are of course not epic: cf. B.M. B 130–31.