(ashen) spears.’
(5) Preserved only by Proclus, from whom some inferior MSS. have
     copied the verse.  The four following lines occur only in
     Geneva Papyri No. 94.  For the restoration of ll. 169b-c see
     “Class.  Quart.” vii. 219-220. (NOTE:  Mr. Evelyn-White means
     that the version quoted by Proclus stops at this point, then
     picks up at l. 170. —­ DBK).
(6) i.e. the race will so degenerate that at the last even a
     new-born child will show the marks of old age.
(7) Aidos, as a quality, is that feeling of reverence or shame
     which restrains men from wrong:  Nemesis is the feeling of
     righteous indignation aroused especially by the sight of the
     wicked in undeserved prosperity (cf.  “Psalms”, lxxii. 1-19).
(8) The alternative version is:  `and, working, you will be much
     better loved both by gods and men; for they greatly dislike
     the idle.’
(9) i.e. neighbours come at once and without making
     preparations, but kinsmen by marriage (who live at a
     distance) have to prepare, and so are long in coming.
(10) Early in May.
(11) In November.
(12) In October.
(13) For pounding corn.
(14) A mallet for breaking clods after ploughing.
(15) The loaf is a flattish cake with two intersecting lines
     scored on its upper surface which divide it into four equal
     parts.
(16) The meaning is obscure.  A scholiast renders `giving eight
     mouthfulls’; but the elder Philostratus uses the word in
     contrast to `leavened’.
(17) About the middle of November.
(18) Spring is so described because the buds have not yet cast
     their iron-grey husks.
(19) In December.
(20) In March.
(21) The latter part of January and earlier part of February.
(22) i.e. the octopus or cuttle.
(23) i.e. the darker-skinned people of Africa, the Egyptians or
     Aethiopians.
(24) i.e. an old man walking with a staff (the `third leg’ —­ as
     in the riddle of the Sphinx).
(25) February to March.
(26) i.e. the snail.  The season is the middle of May.
(27) In June.
(28) July.
(29) i.e. a robber.
(30) September.
(31) The end of October.
(32) That is, the succession of stars which make up the full
     year.
(33) The end of October or beginning of November.
(34) July-August.
(35) i.e. untimely, premature.  Juvenal similarly speaks of
     `cruda senectus’ (caused by gluttony).
(36) The thought is parallel to that of `O, what a goodly outside
     falsehood hath.’
(37) The `common feast’ is one to which all present subscribe. 
     Theognis (line 495) says that one of the chief pleasures of
     a banquet is the general conversation.  Hence the present
     passage means that such a feast naturally costs little,
     while the many present