[647] "Works and Days," 342.
[648] Reading with Wyttenbach, μήδ᾽ ὑπόλαβε πιστεύειν, δοκοῦντα.
[649] See Horace's very amusing "Satire," i. ix., on such tiresome fellows.
[650] ὲπιτρίβω is used in the same sense by Demosthenes, p. 288.
[651] On such social pests see Juvenal, i. 1-14.
[652] See Pausanias, i. 2. Euripides left Athens about 409 B.C., and took up his abode for good in Macedonia at the court of Archelaus, where he died 406 B.C.
[653] For a drachma was only worth 6 obols, or 9¾d. of our money, nearly = Roman denarius.
[654] A talent was 6,000 drachmæ, or 36,000 obols, about £243 15s. of our money.
[655] "Olynth." iii. p. 33, § 19.