[394] Thucydides, iii. 82.
[395] Plato, "Republic," v. p. 474 E. Compare also Lucretius, iv. 1160-1170; Horace, "Satires," i. 3. 38 sq.
[396] This Ptolemy was a votary of Cybele, and a spiritual ancestor of General Booth. The worship of Cybele is well described by Lucretius, ii. 598-643.
[397] This was Ptolemy Auletes, as the former was Ptolemy Philopator.
[398] See Suetonius, "Nero," ch. 21.
[399] "Plerumque minuta voce cantillare."—Wyttenbach. What Milton would have called "a lean and flashy song."
[400] Naso suspendit adunco, as Horace, "Sat." i. 6. 5.
[401] See Athenæus, p. 434 C.
[402] As Gnatho in Terence, "Eunuch." 496-498.
[403] Reading ἑλών, as Courier, Hercher.