[824] Homer, "Iliad," xv. 641, 642.

[825] See Thucydides, i. 127.

[826] See Pausanias, v. 17; viii. 24; ix. 41; x. 29.

[827] Hesiod, "Works and Days," 266.

[828] Ibid. 265. Compare Pausanias, ii. 9; Ovid, A. A. i. 655, 656.

[829] "Significat martyres Christianos, in tunica molesta fumantes."—Reiske.

[830] Like the sword of Damocles. See Horace, "Odes," iii. 1. 17, 21.

[831] See also Pausanias, iii. 17.

[832] Surely ἄν ἀνατρέποι must be read.

[833] Compare "On Curiosity," § x.