Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2013
The purpose of the following notes is twofold: to correct some current mis-statements about the text, dialect and metre (on which, to some extent, our judgement of the date may depend); and to draw from the text an inference about the status of Hybrias.
Athenaeus xv, 695 F seq.
page 64 note 1 Μνοία and its cognates are very rare. We know no more than is reported by Sosicrates, ap. Athen. VI. 263 FGoogle Scholar, [] ; and Hermon, ibid. VI. 267c, [] ( Eust.) . Cf. Hesych. s.vv. , ( Wilam.), Strabo 12. 3. 4, Pollux 3. 83, Steph. Byz. s.v. .
page 64 note 2 Aristotle, , Politics 2. 5, 1264aGoogle Scholar 21 seq., 6 (4). 13, 1297a 29 seq.
page 64 note 3 The phrase implies that he has no other wealth; no aristocratic landowner would speak in these terms.