2. A Greek ‘colony’ was not a ‘subject territory’ in the modern sense, but simply a new state formed by citizens who left their homeland (though the mother state would naturally exercise some influence and control over the new foundation).

3. King of Crete in the remote past, famed as a legislator (cf. Plato, Laws init.), and after his death one of the judges of the souls in the underworld.

4. I.e. men’s meals or gatherings.