[Footnote 17: The Attic _medimnus_ contained 12 imperial gallons, or
1½ bushels.]
[Footnote 18: A circular or cyclic chorus was strictly one which
danced and sang round an altar, but especially refers to the
dithyrambic choruses appropriated to Bacchus.]
[Footnote 19: The _barathrum_ at Athens was a deep pit, with hooks on
the sides, into which criminals were cast.]
[Footnote 20: Alluding to the letter which he had sent to Xerxes. See
'Life of Themistokles.']
[Footnote 21: See 'Life of Themistokles.']
[Footnote 22: So in Latin "hostis" originally meant both a stranger
and an enemy.]
[Footnote 23: These men traced their descent to the Homeric Ajax.]
[Footnote 24: This was always given before the equal division of the
plunder took place. _Cf_. Virg. Æn. IX. 268, _sqq_.]
[Footnote 25: Whether a cinerary urn for the ashes of the dead, or a
water-pot for drawing water is meant, I am unable to determine. Clough
takes the latter meaning, which is borne out by the context. On the
other hand the Greek word is used by Plutarch ('Life of Philopœmen,'
ch. xxi) in the sense of an urn to contain the ashes of the dead.]