[135] See Ovid, "Metamorph." iii. 206-208.
[136] Æschylus, "Toxotides," Fragm. 224.
[137] A very favourite proverb among the ancients. See Plat. "Phaedr." fin. Martial, ii. 43.
[138] Soph. Fragm. 712.
[139] On Lais, see Pausanias, ii. 2. Her Thessalian lover is there called Hippostratus. Her favours were so costly that the famous proverb is said to owe its origin to her, "Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum."
[140] The Ægean and Ionian. Cf. Horace, "Odes," i. 7, 2.
[141] On Acro-Corinthus, see Pausanias, ii. 4. The words in inverted commas are from Euripides, Fragm. 921.
[142] On Lais generally, and her end, see Athenæus, xiii. 54, 55.
[143] See [§ I.] The Festival of Love was being kept at this very time.
[144] This story is also told by Plutarch, "De Mulierum Virtutibus," § xx.