[920] Iliad, xvi. 235.
[921] Odyss. xiv. 228.
[922] The text is corrupt and unintelligible. It has been restored as above.
[923] In some lost tragedy.
[924] Said by Ajax of the sword received from Hector, with which he killed himself.
[925] The imitator of Thucydides, said to be weaker but clearer than his model. He is not specially clear here.
[926] The text has, ἀσφαλέστερα παρὰ δόξαν καὶ κακοπραγίαν; for which Lowth reads, ἐπισφαλέστερα πρὸς κακοπραγίαν, as translated above.
[927] Iliad, xxiv. Clement’s quotation differs somewhat from the passage as it stands in Homer.
[928] The text has δοίη, which Stobæus has changed into δ’ ἵση, as above. Stobæus gives this quotation as follows:
“The bastard has equal strength with the legitimate;