Section 1

Notes

1. 2

   Or, for.

2. 3

   μεσαιτάτη τῆς πόλεως. Codex Regius gives τῶν πόλεων. The sedition referred to as thus dividing Alexandria is probably that which broke out when Æmilianus seized the sovereignty in Alexandria. See Pollio’s Thirty Tyrants.

3. 4

   ἄπειρος. But Codices Fuk. and Savil. give ἄπορος, “impracticable.”

4. 5

   ἀκροτόμου. It may perhaps mean “smitten” here.