his contemporaries at Cambridge, speaks of Dr. Kennedy as "a young giant of learning."—L.
2
Moore's "Life and Letters of Lord Byron," p. 723.
3
Plutarch, "Life of Cimon."
4
"Harold."
1
The late Lord Lytton, in his unpublished autobiographical memoirs, describing his contemporaries at Cambridge, speaks of Dr. Kennedy as "a young giant of learning."—L.
2
Moore's "Life and Letters of Lord Byron," p. 723.
3
Plutarch, "Life of Cimon."
4
"Harold."
5
Gibbon, ch. 17.
6
"The harbour of Constantinople, which may be considered as an arm of the Bosphorus, obtained in a very remote period the denomination of the Golden Horn. The curve which it describes might be compared to the horn of a stag, or, as it should seem, with more propriety to that of an ox."—Gib. c. 17; Strab. 1. x.
7
Ion
8
Herod. ix. 82.
9
Plut. in Vit. Arist.
10
Leader of ten men.
11
Plat. Leg. i. p. 633. See also Müller's Dorians, vol. ii. p. 41.
12
Pueros puberos—neque prius in urbem redire quam viri facti essent.—Justin, iii. 3.
13
When Themistocles sought to extort tribute from the Andrians, he said, "I bring with me two powerful gods—Persuasion and Force." "And on our side," was the answer, "are two deities not less powerful—Poverty and Despair!"
14
The appellation of Mothons was not confined to the Helots who claimed the connection of foster-brothers, but was given also to household slaves.
15
No Spartan served as a sailor, or indeed condescended to any trade or calling, but that of war.
16
Pind. Isth. v. (vi.) 73.
17
Paus. Lac. x.
18
19
"The Byzantine dialect was in the time of Philip, as we know from the decree in Demosthenes, rich in Dorisms."—Müller on the Doric Dialect.
20
Fighting-cocks were fed with garlic, to make them more fierce. The learned reader will remember how Theorus advised Dicaeopolis to keep clear of the Thracians with garlic in their mouths.—See the Acharnians of Aristoph.
21
Garlands were twined round the neck, or placed upon the bosom (Greek: upothumiades). See the quotations from Alcaeus, Sappho, and Anacreon in Athenaeus, book xiii. c. 17.
22
So said Thucydides of the Spartans, many years afterwards. "They give evidence of honour among themselves, but with respect to others, they consider honourable whatever pleases them, and just whatever is to their advantage."—See Thucyd. lib. v.
23
Herod, ix.
