[2027] Probably the name of a rich sensualist who lived at Argos. A son of the Attic orator Lycurgus, one of the sophists, also bore this name.
[2028] This name is supposed by Sillig to have been inserted erroneously, either by Pliny, or by his transcribers.
[2029] Either the Argonaut of that name, who was killed by the Caledonian Boar, or else, which is the most probable, a King of the Leleges in Samos, with whom, according to the Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, originated the saying, “There is many a slip between the cup and the lip;” in reference to his death, by a wild boar, when he was about to put a cup of wine to his mouth.
[2030] Shown in his forbearing to appropriate them to his own use.
[2031] Anna Perenna, probably, a Roman divinity of obscure origin, the legends about whom are related in the Fasti of Ovid, B. iii. l. 523. et seq. See also Macrobius, Sat. I. 12. Her sacred grove was near the Tiber, but of her temple nothing whatever is known. “Antoniæ” is another reading, but no such divinity is mentioned by any other author.
[2032] Sillig (Dict. Anc. Art.) is of opinion that the reading is corrupt here, and that the meaning is, that Apelles “painted a Hero and Leander.”
[2033] Or Demigod.
[2034] One of the followers of Alexander, ultimately slain by Eumenes in Armenia.
[2035] King of Macedonia.
[2036] Odyss. B. vi. l. 102, et seq.