1. A famous lyric poet, born in Teos c. 570.

2. A friend of Pericles, famed for his breeding of peacocks, who became Plato’s stepfather.

3. See p. 139 n. 1.

4. A servant of Apollo, the god of healing. He was said to travel all over the world, carrying an arrow and never eating (Herodotus IV.36), and to have shown the Spartans how to perform sacrifices which put an end to the plagues in their land (Apollonius (2nd cent. B.C.?), Mirabiia 4).