I. FROM THE WRITINGS OF JOHN OF PHILADELPHIA. John Lydus, the author, was a native of Philadelphia in Lydia, hence this title.

1. — — Rightly, then, do the myth-makers depict Kronos The Titan Cronus in Greek mythology making away with his own children, hinting, no doubt, that Time original: chronos; a common ancient wordplay linking the god Kronos with the concept of time, Chronos is both the father and the destruction of all things produced by him.

I. FROM THE WRITINGS OF JOHN] The Vatican Codex reads John Lydus. SCHOW. Nicolaus Schow, the 18th-century editor of this text.

1. the myth-makers] Reading: the myth-makers certain original: οἱ μυθικοί τ. (hoi mythikoi t.). SCHOW. See also below in II. 1. and IV. 27. In the same way below in IV. 21. at the end, mentioning original: ἐπιμιμνησκόμενα (epimimnēskomena) instead of those mentioning original: — νοι (-noi), due to the confusion of the letters $\bar{α}$ (alpha) and οι (oi). Although Hase, in his Commentary on our author’s book On the Magistracies original: De magistratibus; another work by Lydus regarding the Roman civil service page LII, brings these words from Leo Allatius’s index of Miscellanies thus: Rightly then do those concerned with mythic..., from which you might suspect the reading should be those concerned with mythic matters. RUHNKEN. David Ruhnken, a 18th-century classical scholar. Reading: those who wrote down mythic accounts. (Furthermore, it is quite ridiculous that in Photius’s Library A 9th-century collection of book summaries by the Patriarch Photius codex 189, page 470, Acestorides’s four books of MYTHIC accounts of cities original: ’Ακεστορίδου τῶν κατὰ πόλιν ΜΥΘΙΚΩΝ λόγοι δ is translated—whether by Schott or his associates is not clear—thus: *Acestorides' four books of

political mythology*). Although among writers of the time of Theodosius and Justinian Emperors of the 4th through 6th centuries AD that specific phrasing using "mythic" original: μυθικὰ is not so frequent; you may more easily find: according to the... MYTHOLOGISTS (See John Chrysostom An influential 4th-century Archbishop and preacher, Exposition on Psalm 48, 664 line 4—these passages are cited according to the editions listed in my Notes to Leo, pages 273–280): poets and philosophers and mythologists. In the same author's Oration 92, On those who have fallen asleep, VI. 863 line 9: a babbler, or a mythologist, or a joker. Also in Oration 106, On repentance and almsgiving, 923 line 14: to rebuke the mythologists. Also Oration 1, On false prophets, VII. 221 line 28; in these instances, however, the term is mostly used in a hostile sense, just as Chrysostom uses it in his oration: What sort of women one ought to lead as wives