[2179]. Kretschmer, loc. cit.: cf. Bergk, Poet. lyr. Gr. iii.4 p. 97, frag. 23.

[2180]. See Hartwig, Meistersch. p. 255.

[2181]. Petersburg 1670. The Doric dialect is explained by Kretschmer as due to the Sicilian origin of the game.

[2182]. Sc. “hard to beat.”

[2183]. Kretschmer, p. 88.

[2184]. I.e. κυβιστητῆρι.

[2185]. Reinach, i. 294. Probably, as Kretschmer points out, a dog of Melita off Illyricum, not of Malta.

[2186]. Kretschmer, p. 91.

[2187]. Benndorf, Gr. u. sic. Vasenb. pl. 1.

[2188]. Helbig, 186 = Wiener Vorl. 1889, pl. 8, 6.