Al. pastasi, = colonnades.

²⁰⁰ Or, "with armour curiously wrought a wonder and a dread." oplois tois ekpaglotatois, most magnificent, awe-inspiring, a poetical word which appears only in this passage in prose (Holden). L. & S. cf. Hom. "Il."i. 146, xxi. 589, of persons; "Od." xiv. 552, of things. Pind. "Pyth." iv. 140; "Isth." 7 (6), 30.

²⁰¹ Reading idia, al. idia, = "your capital privately employed."

²⁰² Lit. "of all citizens alike," "every single member of the state."

²⁰³ Cf. Plat. "Laws," 834 B.

²⁰⁴ Breit. cf. Pind. "Ol." i. 82; "Pyth." i. 173; ii. 101; iii. 96.

²⁰⁵ "Our solemn festivals," e.g. those held at Olympia, Delphi, the Isthmus, Nemea.

²⁰⁶ Or, "you will be mocked and jeered at past all precedence," as historically was the fate of Dionysus, 388 or 384 B.C. (?); and for the possible connection between that incident and this treatise see Lys. "Olymp."; and Prof. Jebb's remarks on the fragment, "Att. Or." i. p. 203 foll. Grote, "H. G." xi. 40 foll.; "Plato, iii. 577.

²⁰⁷ Or, "to display their wares of wisdom, beauty, excellence."

²⁰⁸ Not summakhoi, but promakhoi.

²⁰⁹ Some commentators suspect a lacuna at this point.

²¹⁰ Al. "It shall be yours to be happy and yet to escape envy." The concluding sentence is gnomic in character and metrical in form. See "Pol. Lac." xv. 9.