4. From Euripides’ Aeolus: part of lines 2 and 3 of fr. 16 in A. Nauck, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (2nd ed., Leipzig, 1889).

5. I.e. one who is ruling wisely and well in a ‘best’ state.

6. This unintelligible sentence reflects the apparently garbled and lacunose condition of the Greek.