Note PG57 — DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
Rich. Fr. Phil. (Richard François Philippe) Brunck translation
Myronides and Phormio were famous Athenian generals. The former was celebrated for his conquest of all Boeotia, except Thebes, in 458 B.C.; the latter, with a fleet of twenty triremes, equipped at his own cost, defeated a Lacedaemonian fleet of forty-seven sail, in 429.