7. Megalopsuchos: cf. VIII iii, n. 4.

8. Chorēgos: cf. IV xv, n. 2. The point is that the accompaniment on the pipes would normally have been delegated to someone of humble status.

9. Presumably one recording a victory in a competition, and the fact that Thrasippus played the pipes in it. Ecphantides was an Athenian comic playwright of the fifth century.

10. Epistēmē, usually ‘knowledge’.