Note 488 — BOOK THE FIFTEENTH.
Theodore Alois Buckley translation · Edition 4
Footnote 488: (return) These three verses were elegantly applied by Sostrates in mitigating the intemperate language which Antigonus would fain have addressed to Ptolemy Philadelphus. See Sextus Emp. adv. Gramm. i. 13, p. 276.