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which the Locrians gave a great defeat to the Crotoniats; it took place in eaiW history, some time before the Persian wars. Life or Pelopidas, page 204. The verse is from the Suppliants of Eu- ripides (861), where Adrastus describes to Theseus the chiefs who fell at Thebes. Page 205. — ■ The battle at JSIantinea is the first and less famous battle, fought in the period of the Peloponnesian War by the Argives and their allies against the Lacedaemonians, and described by Thucydides in his 5th book. Page 206, Androclides, and, page 207, Damodides, might be more correctly written Andrnclidas or Androcteidas, and Damoclidas or Damocleidas, like Meneclidas or Menecleidas, in page 225. The whole of the narrative that fol- lows, of the way in which the plot was carried out, is ingeniously expanded so as to form the framework of Plutarch's philosopliic piece On the Genius (or daimonlon) OF Socrates. Caphisias, brother of Epaminondas, being at Athens shortly after as an envoy, relates it to his philosophic friends there ; the interest of course being in the events, but the greater amount of space being gi^en to the conversation that had passed on the philosophic subject, this in its turn serv- ing to show the composure and equanimity of the noble Thebans at the time. Page 2. — Archias with Phillidas shond be, as appears by the parallel passage in the dialogue De Genio Socratis, Archias with Philippus or Philip. Page 218. — The line is from Nestor's speech, Iliad II., 363. Page 219. — The disaster of Laius, or, more correctly, what befell Laius, alludes to the tale of his carrying away Chrysippus, the , son of Pelops by the nymph Danais, an obscure story, which is, however, mentioned elsewhere by Plutarch. Page 220. — Scedasus was a man who lived at Leuetra, and had daughters named Hippo and Molpia. Those were violated by men of Laoedaemon, Para- themidas, Phruilarchidas, and Parthenius. The young women hung them- selves, and the father, after going in vain to Sparta to seek redress, came home to Leuetra and killed himself. Page 231. — One Epicrates, a baggage carrier, should at any rate be Epicrates the baggage carrier (sheuophoros') ; perhaps Epicrates the shield carrier (sal:es- phoros), a name which he has in the Comic writers (Aristophanes, Ecclesia- suzce, 71, and Plato, Legati, fragm. 3), because of his immense shield-like beard. Epicrates was long prominent as a public speaker ; he took part in the expulsion of the thirty tyrants and in all the subsequent political proceedings, and is the subject of one of the extant orations of Lysias. Page 232. — In the 7th Vine, nher three hundred horse volunteers, shoild he added and mercenary soldic7-s ; but the text appears to be uncertain. Life of ]Lrcellus, page 238. — The verses are from the fourteenth Ihad, 86. Pa^e 246. — A golden cup of a hundred pounds weight is quite uncertain; there is no number given in the present text of Plutarch ; Amyot, who trans- lates " du poids de cent marcs," may have had the number before him in a manuscript now lost ; but litron, pounds, which is all there is in the Greek, is changed by some critics into lutron, spoils, — a golden cup from the produce of tile spijiis.