[435]. Instit. Orat. i. 1.
[436]. Quintil. Inst. Orat. l. x. c. i. Herod. ii. 2.
[437]. See in the Mus. Cortonens. pl. 35. the figure of a nurse bearing the infant Bacchos.
[438]. Max. Tyr. Diss. xi. p. 132.
[439]. Phot. Biblioth. 31. l. 11. Menage shrewdly supposes Baby, Babble, &c. to have been derived from Babel.—D’Israeli, Amenities of Literature, i. 5.
[440]. Pignor. de Serv. p. 187. Sch. Aristoph. Nub. 1365.—Pac. 119.
[441]. Lil. Gyrald. Synt. xii. Hist. Deor. 361 seq. Cf. Lucian. Ver. Hist. lib. 2 § 46. This spectre was said to glide before the sight of persons celebrating the rites of initiation, and therefore the mother of Æschines who performed a part in the rites, and also appeared to the initiated was, with much bad taste, called Empusa by Demosthenes.—De Coronâ, § § 41. 79. Adam Littleton in his Cambridge Dictionary supposes this to have been her real name, which, however, was Glaucis or Glaucothea. Stock. and Wunderl. ad loc. Cf. Harpoc. in. v. Sch. Aristoph. Concion. 1056. Ran. 293, 294. ὁρᾲς τὸν Αἰσχινην ὅς τυμπανιστρίας υἱὸς ἠν. Lucian. Somn. § 12.
[442]. This goddess was also known by the name of Artemis Phosphoros. Aristoph. Concion. 444 et schol.
[443]. Aristoph. Ran. 293. Epicharm. ap. Nat. Com. p. 854. See also Sch. Apol. Rhod. iii. 478. iv. 247.
[444]. Meurs. Lect. Att. iii. 17.