Fragment #1—Diogenes Laertius, viii. 1. 26: 2301 ‘So Urania bare Linus,
a very lovely son: and him all men who are singers and harpers do
bewail at feasts and dances, and as they begin and as they end they
call on Linus....’
Clement of Alexandria, Strom. i. p. 121: ‘....who was skilled in all
manner of wisdom.’
Fragment #2—Scholiast on Homer, Odyssey, iv. 232: ‘Unless Phoebus
Apollo should save him from death, or Paean himself who knows the
remedies for all things.’
Fragment #3—Clement of Alexandria, Protrept, c. vii. p. 21: ‘For he
alone is king and lord of all the undying gods, and no other vies with
him in power.’
Fragment #4—Anecd. Oxon (Cramer), i. p. 148: ‘(To cause?) the gifts of
the blessed gods to come near to earth.’
Fragment #5—Clement of Alexandria, Strom. i. p. 123: ‘Of the Muses who
make a man very wise, marvellous in utterance.’
Fragment #6—Strabo, x. p. 471: ‘But of them (sc. the daughters of
Hecaterus) were born the divine mountain Nymphs and the tribe of
worthless, helpless Satyrs, and the divine Curetes, sportive dancers.’
Fragment #7—Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. i. 824: ‘Beseeching
the offspring of glorious Cleodaeus.’
Fragment #8—Suidas, s.v.: ‘For the Olympian gave might to the sons of
Aeacus, and wisdom to the sons of Amythaon, and wealth to the sons of
Atreus.’
Fragment #9—Scholiast on Homer, Iliad, xiii. 155: ‘For through his lack
of wood the timber of the ships rotted.’
Fragment #10—Etymologicum Magnum: ‘No longer do they walk with delicate
feet.’
Fragment #11—Scholiast on Homer, Iliad, xxiv. 624: ‘First of all they
roasted (pieces of meat), and drew them carefully off the spits.’
Fragment #12—Chrysippus, Fragg. ii. 254. 11: ‘For his spirit increased
in his dear breast.’
Fragment #13—Chrysippus, Fragg. ii. 254. 15: ‘With such heart grieving
anger in her breast.’
Fragment #14—Strabo, vii. p. 327: ‘He went to Dodona and the oak-grove,
the dwelling place of the Pelasgi.’
Fragment #15—Anecd. Oxon (Cramer), iii. p. 318. not.: ‘With the
pitiless smoke of black pitch and of cedar.’
Fragment #16—Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. i. 757: ‘But he
himself in the swelling tide of the rain-swollen river.’
Fragment #17—Stephanus of Byzantium: (The river) Parthenius, ‘Flowing
as softly as a dainty maiden goes.’
Fragment #18—Scholiast on Theocritus, xi. 75: ‘Foolish the man who
leaves what he has, and follows after what he has not.’
Fragment #19—Harpocration: ‘The deeds of the young, the counsels of the
middle-aged, and the prayers of the aged.’
Fragment #20—Porphyr, On Abstinence, ii. 18. p. 134: ‘Howsoever the
city does sacrifice, the ancient custom is best.’
Fragment #21—Scholiast on Nicander, Theriaca, 452: ‘But you should be
gentle towards your father.’
Fragment #22—Plato, Epist. xi. 358: ‘And if I said this, it would seem
a poor thing and hard to understand.’
Fragment #23—Bacchylides, v. 191-3: Thus spake the Boeotian, even
Hesiod 2302, servant of the sweet Muses: ‘whomsoever the immortals
honour, the good report of mortals also followeth him.’