[592] That is, is all kernel. See passim our author's "Apophthegmata Laconica."
[593] Or, apophthegmatic nature.
[594] Dionysius the younger, tyrant of Syracuse, was expelled, and afterwards kept a school at Corinth. That is the allusion. It would be like saying "Remember Napoleon at St. Helena."
[595] See Pausanias, x. 24.
[596] See Plato, "Charmides," 165 A.
[597] A title applied to Apollo first by Herodotus, i. 91, from his ambiguous (λοξά) oracles.
[598] Part of the words of an oracle of the Pythian Priestess, slightly changed. The whole oracle may be seen in Herodotus, i. 47.
[599] Proverb of cross purposes.
[600] Reading ἐξερᾰσθαι with Dübner.
[601] Catullus calls him "tumidus," i.e. long-winded, 95, 10. See also Propertius, iii. 34-32. He was a Greek poet, a contemporary of Socrates and Plato, and author of a Thebaid. Pausanias mentions him, viii. 25; ix. 35.