[940] Or, according to the reading in Pausanias, and the statement of Plutarch, “who was the daughter of Poseidon.”
[941] Or Samanæi.
[942] Altered for Ἀλλόβιοι in accordance with the note of Montacutius, who cites Strabo as an authority for the existence of a sect of Indian sages called Hylobii, ὐλόβιοι—Silvicolæ.
[943] Βούττα.
[944] Cæsar, Gallic War, book i. chap. 50.
[945] Sozomen also calls Philo a Pythagorean.
[946] νάβλα and ναύλα; Lat. nablium; doubtless the Hebrew נֵבֶל (psaltery, A.V.), described by Josephus as a lyre or harp of twelve strings (in Ps. xxxiv. it is said ten), and played with the fingers. Jerome says it was triangular in shape.
[947] ἀυτόχθων, Eusebius. The text has αὐτοσχεὸιον, off-hand.
[948] Literally, fist-straps, the cæstus of the boxers.
[949] σαμβύκη, a triangular lyre with four strings.