[399] In Greek, this word is properly applied to the slave whose duty it was to attend a boy to and from school, and generally to keep him out of mischief. He was not supposed to teach him.
[400] The literal meaning of this word is "bull's head." It is conjectured that this refers to the mark with which the horse was branded, not to his appearance.
[401] I believe that the seal here mentioned was Philip's own, and in no sense the "great seal of the kingdom," although Strabo speaks of the public seal of a state.
[402] A tribe in the eastern part of Macedonia.
[403] Near Chæronea.
[404] It must be remembered that the ancients, although they possessed chairs, always ate and drank reclining upon couches.
[405] The Karians, ever since the siege of Troy, were regarded by the Greeks with the greatest contempt Cf. Il. ix. 378.
[406] Bacchus. Compare the Bacchæ of Euripides, passim.
[407] For a description of the Macedonian phalanx, see life of Titus Flaminius, ch. viii., note.
[408] This inscription was no doubt written over such spoils as were placed in the Greek temples. Compare Virgil's "Æneas hæc de Danais victoribus arma."