[1:1] We have adopted the conventional title, "Banquet of the Learned;" but it may, perhaps, be more accurate to translate it, "The Contrivers of Feasts." Vide Smith's Biographical Dictionary, voc. Athenæus.
[3:1] Callimachus.
[3:2] Marcus Aurelius.
[4:1] Asteropæus was one of the Trojan heroes who endeavoured to fight Achilles, being armed with two spears.
[4:2] Pindar. Ol. i. 22.—See Moore's translation.
[7:1] Epicharmus.
[8:1] There is a pun here that is untranslateable. Δάκτυλος is a finger; but the Δάκτυλοι Ἰδαῖοι were also priests of Cybele in Crete, and are the people to whom the discovery of iron, and the art of working it by fire, is ascribed.
[9:1] φίλιχθυς, fond of fish.
[9:2] φιλόδειπνος, fond of feasting.
[13:1] Odyss. iv. 54. The poetical translations are from the corresponding passages in Pope's Homer.