[31]. Il. 20, 95.

[32]. συμπιέσας for the MSS. reading συμπείσας (Reiske).

[33]. πταρμὸς ἤ (Ed. Teub.), for ἐφαρμόσει, is attractive, but it seems better not to anticipate the word.

[34]. ἐπὶ ῥειτοῖς is K. O. Müller’s reading for ἐπὶ ρητις της of the MSS. See Wordsworth’s Athens and Attica, p. 9.

[35]. Fr. 284 (the well-known fragment of the Autolycus about Athletes) l. 22.

[36]. Cp. Od. 1, 170, &c.

[37]. Od. 1, 27.

[38]. See Life of Nicias, c. 3.

[39]. Aeschylus, Prometheus, 545.

[40]. Cp. Bacchylides, Fr. 37 (Life of Numa, c. 4): ‘Broad is the road’, i. e. ‘there is room for divergent opinions.’