[1] These are the lightnings before snow, etc. that Scaliger’s
Criticus so unworthily taxeth; citing the place falsely, as in the
third book’s annotations, etc.
[2] _᾽Επὶ ξυρου̑ ἵσταται ἀκμη̑ς_. This went into a proverb, used by
Theocritus, _in Dioscuris_, out of Homer.