[1183]. Callim. Frag. xxv. p. 241. Spanh.—Theoc. Epithal. Hell. 48.
[1184]. Ap. Eustath. Iliad, ζ. 490. Potter, Archæol. ii. 244.
[1185]. Philostrat. Epist. xx. p. 921. Hermann. Com. in Arist. Poet. p. 87.
[1186]. Athen. xv. 9.
[1187]. Cf. Naïs according to Harpocrat. in v. p. 203. Sch. Aristoph. Plat. 179. Cf. Athen. xiii. 51.
[1188]. Athen. xv. 9.
[1189]. Aristoph. Thesmoph. 400.
[1190]. Σὲ δέσποινα τῶν ὑπὲρ σοῦ λόγων, Ἀφροδίτη, σὲ βοηθὸν αἱ ἐμαὶ δεήσεις καλοῦσιν. Luc. Amor. § 19.
[1191]. See the whole question treated with peculiar ability by Maximus Tyrius viii. 105. sqq. Homer, in the opinion of this writer, exhibits especial felicity in his description of love, from the cool, timid dawn of passion to its fervid noon, pourtraying its operations, the age at which it is experienced, its forms, its feelings, chaste or unchaste. See too Lycophron Cassand. 104. with the commentary of Meursius, p. 1184. 1186. sqq.
[1192]. The friendship of Achilles for Patroclos is celebrated by Maximus Tyrius, viii. 106. Cf. Luc. Amor. 20.