^{page 348 note 1} Similar national cognizances however are known on monuments and coins, see Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique xx. 549 sq. ‘παρσνμα de Villes sur des Stèles de Proxénie’ by M. Paul Perdrizet.

^{page 348 note 2} Preoccupation on this subject is shewn in the scholia (B 122, 130, 488; θ 56, 562; O 407; π 170) and Eustathius (on B 484, 718), who are mainly taken up with Thucydides' discrepancy and his method of striking an average between the largest and the smallest contingent; and an echo seems to lurk in the enumeration of the ships in various MSS., either on the margin (as in the Venetus 454) or at the end of the Catalogue.

^{page 348 note 3} The authorities are given in the articles on Acamas in the new edition of Panly, and on Acamas and Demophon in Roscher's Lexicon.

^{page 349 note 1} A preference for the Cycle, as historical evidence, over the Iliad, is obvious, and not peculiar to the younger Euripides.