Chapter 8: the crocodile. See Herodotus ii. 68

CHAPTER 9. _Teian_, sc. Anacreon, circa 520 B.C.

_Lacedaemonian_, sc. Alcman, circa 650 B.C.

_Cean_, sc. Simonides, circa 520 B.C.

_Lesbian_, sc. Sappho, circa 600 B.C.

_Aedituus_, _Porcius_, _Catulus_, erotic epigrammatists of the Republican period, 130-100 B.C. The latter was Marius' colleague in the Cimbrian wars.

_Solon._ The line ascribed to Solon is almost too gross in the original to be genuine.

_Diogenes_, the founder of the Cynic school (died 324 B.C.), wrote 'concerning marriage and the begetting of children' in an erotic fashion. Diog. Laert. vi. 2. 12.

_Zeno_ of Citium, founder of the Stoic school (died 264 B.C.), wrote an 'art of love'. Diog. Laert. vii. 21. 29.

CHAPTER 10. _Ticidas_, an erotic poet, contemporary with Catullus and, like him, belonging to the Alexandrian school.

_Lucilius_, the first of Rome's great satirists (148-103 B.C.), famous for the extraordinary vigour with which he lashed the vices of the age. The allusion in the present passage is unknown, though a fragment is preserved containing the name of Macedo and possibly also of Gentius (cp. Baehrens, Fragm. Poet. Rom., p. 168).

_the Mantuan poet._ Vergil, Ecl. ii.

_Serranus_, the cognomen of Atilius Regulus, consul 257 B.C., the famous Regulus of the first Punic war.

_Curius_ Dentatus, thrice consul, and victor over the Samnites and Pyrrhus.

_Fabricius_, general in the war against Pyrrhus. Consul in 282 and 278 B.C. These three great soldiers were selected as types of Roman virtue. Cp. Verg. Aen. vi. 485.

_Dion_, brother-in-law and son-in-law of Dionysius II, tyrant of Syracuse, the friend and pupil of Plato, and for a brief space tyrant of Syracuse.

CHAPTER 11. _Catullus_ xvi. 5.

_Hadrian_, Emperor, 117-138 A.D.

_Voconius_, mentioned here only.