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memnon, whose glory is at this time the greatest under heaven, so great a city he has taken, and so many people has destroyed."
Page 284.—Returned the same way he went, and showed the barbarians—A better reading gives the following sense, returned, and showed the barbarians by the very roads he took.
Page 287.—The first basilica built in Rome was the Porcian, built by Cato the Elder; see his life, Vol. II., p. 240, and the life of the younger Cato, in this volume, p. 375. The Fulvian was the next, built by the joint censors Æmilius and Fulvius, adorned by subsequent members of the Æmilian family, and now restored with the help of Cæsar's money. This was the Basilica Paulli.
Page 309.—Antony's debauchery and Corfinius's profuseness ought perhaps to change places, and to stand as Corfinius's debauchery (or drunkenness) and Antony's profuseness: it was certainly Antony who bought Pompey's house; see his life, Vol. V., p. 164; and the statement there made is confirmed by Cicero in the second Philippic (c. 26).
Page 315.—Pomentium is Pometia, or Suessa Pometia, a town that had ceased to exist long before Cæsar's time, which, however, gave its name to the Pomptine marshes.
Page 328.—To the top of a rock is a mistranslation; the Greek is merely to a rocky place; and the place which Brutus made his refuge seems, by the account in his life, to have been at the bottom rather than at the top.
Life of Phocion, page 329.—When fortune fails, the sense we had before, Deserts us also, and is ours no more, is said by Antigone to Creon, in the play of Sophocles (Antigone, 563).
Page 332.—The passage in Cicero is in the letters to Atticus (II., 1): "Dicit enim tanquam in Platonis politeiai, non tanquam in Romuli fæce, sententiam." It does not, however, refer to his repulse as a candidate for the consulship.
Page 336.—The two elegiac verses from Archilochus are quoted also by Athenæus, as said by Archilochus of himself. They are the first fragment in Bergk.
Page 338.—Plutarch tells the story also in his essay on False Modesty (de Vitioso Pudore, c. 10), and again in his Political Precepts (Reipublicæ Gerendæ Præcepta, c. 31). These calls for subscriptions for public amusements and displays were snares to the unwise in his time also. From the turn he gives to Phocion's answer in the latter passage, it seems to be that he declines to make a gift by incurring a debt, to offer the state a present by borrowing money which he will not be able to repay, not as if he was already in debt to his banker or money-lender.
Page 345.—The defeat is the battle of Chæronea.
Page 346.—Unwise one, wherefore is what the sailors say to Ulysses in the story of the Cyclops, when they are rowing their boat from the shore, and Ulysses, though he has already by one bold speech provoked the Cyclops to hurl a rock which had nearly intercepted them, is, nevertheless, eager to accost him once again with a taunt.
Page 353.—A friend and old confidant should be a friend and old schoolfellow. Phocion in like manner replied, that they had not ever been at school together, nor had ever been acquainted or familiar with each other.