[15] The words are perhaps a gloss.

[16] e.g. the games at Olympia, or the great Dionysia at Athens, etc.

[17] Omitting {einai}, or if with Breit. {dokei einai . . .
sunageiresthai}, transl. "in which it is recognised that sights
are to be seen best fitted to enchain the eyes and congregate vast
masses." For other emendations see Holden, crit. app.; Hartm. op.
cit. p. 258.

[18] "Religious embassies"; it. "Theories." See Thuc. vi. 16; "Mem."
IV. viii. 2.

[19] Lit. "not stronger than those present."

[20] Or, "The dread oppresses him, he may be deprived of his empire
and yet be powerless."

[21] Cf. Plat. "Rep." ix. 579 B: "His soul is dainty and greedy; and
yet he only of all men is never allowed to go on a journey, or to
see things which other free men desire to see; but he lives in his
hole like a woman hidden in the house, and is jealous of any other
citizen who goes into foreign parts and sees things of interest"
(Jowett).

Perhaps you will retort: "Why should he trouble to go abroad to seek
for such things? They are sure to come to him, although he stops at
home." Yes, Simonides, that is so far true; a small percentage of them
no doubt will, and this scant moiety will be sold at so high a price
to the despotic monarch, that the exhibitor of the merest trifle looks