[145] Sophocles, Fragm. 741. Quoted again in "On Abundance of Friends," § iii.
[146] A Delphic word for love. Can it be connected with ἅρμα?
[147] Very frequent in Homer, e.g., "Iliad," ii. 232; vi, 165; xiii. 636: xiv. 353, etc.
[148] See Lucretius, iv. 1105-1114. I tone down the original here a little.
[149] Homer, "Odyssey," vi. 183, 184. Cf. Eurip. "Medea," 14, 15.
[150] This means when the moustache and beard and whiskers begin to grow.
[151] The whole story about Harmodius and Aristogiton and how they killed Hipparchus is told by Thucydides, vi. 54-59. Bion therefore practically called these sprouting beards tyrant-killers, tyrannicides.
[152] "Scriptus igitur hic libellus est post caedem Domitiani."—Reiske.
[153] Vespasian certainly was not cruel generally. "Non temere quis punitus insons reperietur, nisi absente eo et ignaro aut certe invito atque decepto..... Sola est, in qua merito culpetur, pecuniæ cupiditas."—Suetonius, "Divus Vespasianus," 15, 16.