[19] Suidas.
[20] The mina was twelve ounces, or a sum estimated as equal to £3 15s. English.
[22] Spelt variously Locman, Lôqman, Lokman.
[23] This woman is notorious in history as a courtesan who essayed to compound for her sins by votive offerings to the temple at Delphi. She is also said to have built the Lesser Pyramid out of her accumulated riches, but this is denied by Herodotus, who claims for the structure a more ancient and less discreditable foundation, being the work, as he asserts, of Mycerinus, King of Egypt (Herod., ii. 134).
[24] Phædrus, Epilogue, book ii.
[25] Boothby, Preface, p. xxxiv.
