[41]. Compare Life of Coriolanus, c. 32, p. 229, with this difficult passage.

[42]. Of the participle so translated only the termination remains. Reiske’s μεταλλευόντων well completes this fine image.

[43]. This word is not in the Greek text.

[44]. See note on the Myths of Plutarch, p. [315].

[45]. Lucian (Musc. Encom. c. 7) tells the same story of Hermodorus. Plutarch has probably made a slip, as elsewhere, in names. See p. [99].

[46]. Il. 7, 44-5.

[47]. l. 53.

[48]. i. e. in the Wooden Horse, Od. 11, 526-32.

[49]. Perhaps rather ‘the Laconizing party’, as the Teubner editor suggests.

[50]. 8,000 feet above the sea. The Phaedriades rose to about 800 feet.