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[468]. Schol. Aristoph. Vesp. 1517. Diog. Laert. i. 4. 8. Cf. Hyde Nerdilud. p. 259.
[469]. Callim. Ep. i. 9. seq. p. 180.
[470]. I. 5. 3.
[471]. Cf. Caylus, Rec. D’Antiq. t. vi. 318. seq.
[472]. Descr. des Pierres Grav. du Cab. de Stosch. 452. seq.
[473]. Eurip. Mod. 45. et Sch.
[474]. L. xiv. Ep. 169.
[475]. iii. 12.
[476]. Ars Poet. 380. where the ancient scholiast seems doubtful whether the trochus was a hoop or a top:—“Trochus dicitur turben, qui flagello percutitur, et in vertiginem rotatur, aut rota quam currendo pueri scuticâ vel virgâ regunt.”