[239]. Fr. 211.

[240]. W. and D. 735-6.

[241]. Eur. Fr. 970.

[242]. I have transposed the verbs as suggested in Wyttenbach’s Commentary.

[243]. Cp. Dante, Purg. 3, 19 foll. The idea is Pythagorean (see Quaest. Graec. 40, p. 300).

[244]. Cp. Plato, Gorg. 524 D.

[245]. See H. Richards in Class. Rev., vol. 29, p. 236.

[246]. Cp. p. 215, n. 1.

[247]. Cp. p. 89.

[248]. Probably a Sibylline verse. See Suetonius, Life of Vespasian.