[29] Or symposium, where all sorts of liberties were taken.
[30] I have softened his phrase. His actual words were very coarse, and would naturally be resented by Ptolemy. See Athenæus, 621, A.
[31] See "Iliad," v. 83; xvi. 334; xx, 477.
[32] A fragment from the "Dictys" of Euripides.
[33] "Republ." v. 463, F. sq.
[34] Cf. Shakespeare's "Winter Tale," Act iii. sc. iii. 59-63.
[35] As Horace's father did. See "Satires," Book i. Sat. iv. 105-129.
[36] What we call black sheep.
[37] From Simonides. Cf. Seneca, "Epist." xlix. "Punctum est quod vivimus, et adhuc puncto minus."
[38] Reading with Wyttenbach, ὡς ἐκ λογικῆς τέχνης.