Note A — XI.
George Long translation
Instead of σκάλμη Saumaise reads σκαμβή. There is a Greek proverb, σκαμβὸν ξύλον οὐδέποτ᾽ ὀρθόν: "You cannot make a crooked stick straight."
The wolfish friendship is an allusion to the fable of the sheep and the wolves.