[299]. Herod. 7, 114.

[300]. Crat. 403 A, 404 B.

[301]. Cp. Arist. Rhet. 2, 23, 27, 1400 b 5, where the Eleatae are named.

[302]. In c. 22 Apollonides is made to state the angular diameter of the moon at 12 ‘fingers’, i. e. one degree.

[303]. See Note (1), p. [309].

[304]. See Note (2), p. [309].

[305]. Arist. Probl. 12, 3.

[306]. See Note (3), p. [309].

[307]. See Aristarchus, Magnitudes and Distances, Hypothesis 2.

[308]. See the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, 99-100, where the moon is the daughter of Pallas (‘the Pallantean orb sublime’, Shelley), cp. p. 294.