[17] The Attic medimnus contained 12 imperial gallons, or 1½ bushels.
[18] A circular or cyclic chorus was strictly one which danced and sang round an altar, but especially refers to the dithyrambic choruses appropriated to Bacchus.
[19] The barathrum at Athens was a deep pit, with hooks on the sides, into which criminals were cast.
[20] Alluding to the letter which he had sent to Xerxes. See 'Life of Themistokles.'
[21] See 'Life of Themistokles.'
[22] So in Latin "hostis" originally meant both a stranger and an enemy.
[23] These men traced their descent to the Homeric Ajax.
[24] This was always given before the equal division of the plunder took place. Cf. Virg. Æn. IX. 268, sqq.
[25] Whether a cinerary urn for the ashes of the dead, or a water-pot for drawing water is meant, I am unable to determine. Clough takes the latter meaning, which is borne out by the context. On the other hand the Greek word is used by Plutarch ('Life of Philopœmen,' ch. xxi) in the sense of an urn to contain the ashes of the dead.