[854] Sons of Cassander.

[855] "Iliad," vi. 146-149.

[856] Compare Plato, "Phædrus," 276 B. These gardens of Adonis were what we might call flowerpot gardens. See Erasmus, "Adagia."

[857] εὐθὺς seems the best reading, ἀεὶ is flat.

[858] Apollo.

[859] See [§ xii.]

[860] Hesiod, "Works and Days," 735, 736.

[861] Compare the French Proverb, "L'occasion fait le larron." And Juvenal's "Nemo repente fuit turpissimus."

[862] So Reiske very ingeniously.

[863] A rather far-fetched pedigree.