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P. 1, footnote 1. After the words 'Journal of Hellenic Studies' read 'vol. ii.' for 'vol. i.'
P. 2, footnote (continued from page 1), for 'as Aetna was founded in 475' read 'as Aetna was founded in 476 B.C.', and in next line for '472 B.C.' read '473 B.C.'
P. 20, add to note on l. 46:
Dr. Postgate, however, quotes Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 894, τοῦ ξυνεύδοντος χρόνου, "the time that shared my sleep," as an instance of time being said to do what takes place during its lapse.
P. 44, 13th line from foot,
P. 49, add to note on l. 22:
The difficult expression ἥρως θεός Greek: "hero god." has never been satisfactorily explained. Dr. Postgate conjectures ἥρῳ θεῷ Greek: "to the hero god.", and this certainly deserves consideration.
P. 50, to note on l. 24 add a reference (pointed out to me by Dr. Postgate) to Plato, Critias, p. 108.
P. 53, l. 41 of text, for ἀτρεκεῖ read ἀτρεκεῖ. Note: The correction remains the same; likely a printing error in the original source text.
P. 59, to note on l. 72 add the following words: τρίτον Greek: "third." is the reading of the manuscripts of Triclinius. BB have τρίτατος Greek: "third." and the other ancient manuscripts τρίτατον Greek: "third.", contrary to the meter.
P. 61, in note on l. 80 after the words 'associated with the city of Agrigentum' add:
The scholiast An ancient commentator. says that Pindar is alluding to Bacchylides.
P. 89, in note on l. 2, for χαλκὸν...ὄντε...ἐνίκασαν read χαλκὸν...ὄντε...νικᾶσαι. Correcting the Greek verb forms.
P. 91, add to note on l. 20:
Dr. Postgate compares Oedipus Tyrannus 1301, "who is the spirit that leaped beyond the greatest?" and suggests that we may infer from this that a maximum and a minimum leap were marked.
P. 92, add to note on l. 26:
Dr. Postgate believes that πεδᾶσαι Greek: "to bind/shackle/kill." here means to kill, comparing "he planted death for him" (Nemean IV. 59) and Threnoi fragment 6, "he killed thirteen men, and was himself bound/killed in the fourth."