Page 250.—Three hundred should probably be thirteen hundred. Livy, whom Plutarch appears to be following in the narrative, says 1272.
Page 262.—Ephesus was the workhouse of war when Agesilaus made it his head-quarters in his Asiatic campaigns. The quotation from Pindar is from the beginning of the 2nd Pythian ode. Rude, unrefined, only for great things good, is the description of Hercules in fragment No. 1 of the Licymnius. The words are quoted elsewhere by Plutarch as applying to Cimon; see Vol. III, p. 202.
Page 273.—The fragment from Pindar is No. 256, in Boeckh; nothing more is known of it.
Comparison, page 278.—The passage referred to in the Cyropædia is the 1st chapter of the 4th book. It is not certain how much of the sentiment contained, a little below, in the two verses of the translation, belongs to what Euripides said. Plutarch, who gives it in an unmetrical form here, quotes elsewhere two lines identical with the latter part. But if it be lawful to die, then it is noble to die, making virtue (or honor) the term of our life. Grotius gives, as a translation of the whole:—
Vincere vivereque optima res est;
Si moriendum est, ita dulce mori
Vitam ut virtus sorbeat in se.
See Matthiæ's Euripides, (Fragment. incert., 110).
Life of Aristides, page 281.—The way of writing in use since the time of Euclides differed from the previous usage more particularly in the introduction of the Ionic letters ela and omega, the long e and o, which up to that date had never appeared in public inscriptions or documents. The year of the archonship of Euclides is 403 b.c., the first after the end of the Peloponnesian War; in the course of which the thirty tyrants were expelled, the amnesty decreed, and the democracy reëstablished.
Page 284.—The verses from Æschylus relating to Amphiaraus are from the Seven against Thebes, lines 574 to 576. Well known he was, &c., is ascribed to Euripides.
Page 305.—The inscription is by Simonides. Plutarch's text omits one line, which is found elsewhere in one of his minor works.
Page 312.—What Plato declares is found in the Gorgias, pages 519 and 526.
Page 313.—The death of Paches in the judgment-hall is an incorrect expression. Paches, after his suppression of the revolt of Lesbos, was brought to trial, on his return home, and killed himself in the presence of the people assembled to try him, as he stood on the speaker's stand (the hustings). Compare the account in the beginning of the life of Nicias, Vol. III. p. 296.
Life of Cato, page 320.—Scipio the great did not seem to envy, but, on the contrary, as the right translation would stand, to be envied by Fabius. See the account at the end of the life of Fabius Maximus, Vol I. p. 321. In the 13th line from the bottom, the word general should probably be altered for prætor; when he was holding the office of prætor, or of consul.
Page 324.—For Socrates in the description of Plato, see the Symposium, p. 215; a famous portraiture, placed in the mouth of Alcibiades. Cato is compared, rather at random, to Lysias, in Cicero's Brutus, chapter 16.
