[Footnote 1: _The only cowards_)--Ver. 267. He alludes to the
notion in the heroic times, that it was the duty of a warrior to conquer
or to die, and that it was disgraceful to be made prisoner.]

[Footnote 2: _Wielding the razor_)--Ver. 271. It is hard to say
whether by the word "cuttros," in this passage, razors or scissors are
meant.]

[Footnote 3: _To put on the barber's cloth_)--Ver. 272. He probably
means by this expression that Philocrates has made no preamble, and
shown no hesitation, in commencing at once to dupe the old man.]

[Footnote 4: _Or trim him_)--Ver. 273. He alludes here to the two
kinds of shaving and trimming the beard used by the barbers among the
ancients. The one was close "strictim," when they shaved to the skin; the
other was, when with a pair of scissors they clipped the hair, with the
interposition of a comb. The former fashion was called by the Greeks
[Greek: _skaphion_]; the latter method, which was borrowed from the
Persians, [Greek: _kaepos_]. "Esse in tonstrina," "to be in the
barber's shop," was a proverbial expression to denote "being imposed
upon." Tyndarus is wondering to what extent Philocrates is going to
impose upon Hegio.]

[Footnote 5: _Through the comb_)--Ver. 273. The Greeks and Romans
made their combs of boxwood, much of which was imported from
Paphlagonia. The Egyptians used them made of wood and of ivory, and
toothed on one side only; while those of the Greeks had teeth on both
sides.]