[41]. A frequent pretence of ancient witches.
[42]. These were farmed.
[43]. The Homeric σιγαλόεντα (‘glossy’) is brought, either in error or by a deliberate pun, into relation with σιγή (‘silence’).
[44]. The paedagogus, an attendant slave, who accompanied the boy and watched over his conduct.
[45]. In his Phaedrus.
[46]. i. e. in the mixolydian mode, which was of a sad and dirgelike character.
[47]. The rest of the essay is missing.
[48]. i.e. a rough and mountainous island.
[49]. A ‘satyric’ drama was a half-comic interlude or sequel to tragedies.
[50]. In the Stoic sense of adiaphoria.