1703 (return) [ Constantine VII. ‘Born in the Porphyry Chamber’,
905-959 A.D.]
1704 (return) [ “Berlin Papyri”, 7497 (left-hand fragment) and
“Oxyrhynchus Papyri”, 421 (right-hand fragment). For the restoration
see “Class. Quart.” vii. 217-8.]
1705 (return) [ As the price to be given to her father for her: so in
_Iliad_ xviii. 593 maidens are called ‘earners of oxen’. Possibly
Glaucus, like Aias (fr. 68, ll. 55 ff.), raided the cattle of others.]
1706 (return) [ _i.e._ Glaucus should father the children of others.
The curse of Aphrodite on the daughters of Tyndareus (fr. 67) may be
compared.]
1707 (return) [ Porphyry, scholar, mathematician, philosopher and
historian, lived 233-305 (?) A.D. He was a pupil of the neo-Platonist
Plotinus.]
1708 (return) [ Author of a geographical lexicon, produced after 400
A.D., and abridged under Justinian.]
1709 (return) [ Archbishop of Thessalonica 1175-1192 (?) A.D., author
of commentaries on Pindar and on the _Iliad_ and _Odyssey_.]
1710 (return) [ In the earliest times a loin-cloth was worn by
athletes, but was discarded after the 14th Olympiad.]
1711 (return) [ Slight remains of five lines precede line 1 in the
original: after line 20 an unknown number of lines have been lost, and
traces of a verse preceding line 21 are here omitted. Between lines 29
and 30 are fragments of six verses which do not suggest any definite
restoration. (NOTE: Line enumeration is that according to Evelyn-White;
a slightly different line numbering system is adopted in the original
publication of this fragment.—DBK)]
1712 (return) [ The end of Schoeneus’ speech, the preparations and the
beginning of the race are lost.]
1713 (return) [ Of the three which Aphrodite gave him to enable him to
overcome Atalanta.]