[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.