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those who struggle for a great matter, even if they are conquered, bringing forth falsehoods: yet they are fed by glory because they were conquered in a great matter. Thus many struggle to have you as a citizen, not thinking it will be disgraceful for themselves if they are conquered in such a famous contest. Domit.

135 Festina of praises] A man supreme in learning, judgment, and wit, J. Lipsius, most elegantly emended it to festinus of praises original: "laudum festinus", and most truly, just as 'festinus of a vow' in Theb. vi. 74. Barth.

141 Let it be easy, &c.] The opinion of Papinius is far different than what Domitius thinks. Certainly, let someone say that it is pronum easy, that it is easy to earn crowns under domestic judges: but what will envy have with which to bite your Achaian victories? For this he says, that his father had obtained great honors through the games of Greece. Easy, for this word, not understood by the good man, is easy, prompt. Statius elsewhere: "to know is easy." Gron. Diatr. cap. 56.

143 Athamantean] That is, a crown from the Isthmian games: which was given from the pine. He calls it Athamantean, since the Isthmian games had been instituted for Melicertes, the son of Athamas; from the opinion of Pausanias I have taken the leaves. Domit.

151 Sicilian Old Man] Hiero the Sicilian indeed wrote about rustic affairs, as Varro is the author; but here he understands Theocritus, who was a Syracusan. Boe, however, writes that he was a Smyrnean from Phosse, admirable in his own kind. The same.

152 Pindaric voice, &c.] The voice of the lyre is called flexa bent/modulated because of the strophes and antistrophes of the lyric poets. See Turneb. Advers. book 1. Sappho of Leucas] See the same, book x. chap. 2. Cruceus.

153 Alcman] A lyric poet who flourished in the 38th Olympiad, and was the first to invent amatory songs. Consult Suidas and Aelian on Various History. Bernart.

154 Stesichorus] A Sicilian lyric poet: Horace, "And the grave Muses of Stesichorus." The same.

157 Songs of the Battiades] He understands Callimachus: about whom we have written much in Ovid's Ibis, by the testimony even of Strabo. There were, however, two Callimachuses: one, the son of Battus and Mesatina, a Cyrenaean grammarian, a student of Hermocrates, had as a wife the daughter of Euphrasus of Syracuse. The younger Callimachus, the other, was the son of his sister, who wrote verses about the islands, poems of every kind of song. Domitius. Lycophron] The son of Sophocles the Grammarian, by the adoption of Lycus of Rhegium, the historian, received among the seven poets who were called the Pleiades from the number of stars by Ptolemy Philadelphus. Consult Suidas. Bernart.

158 And Sophron entangled] We cannot judge about this. Yet no other of the authors wrote such a thing about this Mime-writer, that I know of. Of thin Corinna] From a certain subtlety of her songs; whence they also say she was called the 'Lyric Muse,' which Papinius perhaps alluded to. Pausanias, book ix, reports that she was a woman most beautiful in form, the icon being the witness. Barth.

163 Acres of Daunus] He understands the Rutulians who held Ardea: and Silius calls them the 'Daunian youth.' For Daunus was the father of Turnus, who commanded the Rutulians. Domit.

164 House wept for by Venus] He understands Lavinium, where there was a temple of Venus common to the Latin name, as Strabo writes, wept for with great celebration of the peoples. For the river Numicus is nearby, in which Aeneas the son was submerged when he had ruled for three years, having joined battle against the Rutulians. And the neglected land of Alcides] He understands that tract of Campania which is between Misenum and Puteoli, on the mainland. For Hercules, intending to lead his cattle that way, neglected the mainland, having built a causeway in the outer sea. The same.

170 Where in the middle, deeply, &c.] Concerning the warm baths of Baiae to be openly taken.