Book I

269:1 Il. 16, 459. 273:1 Compare the Athenian-Spartan treaty, Thuc. 5, 18. 275:1 I.e. calf of the leg. 277:1 Cf. Herod. 1, 202; 4, 75; Strabo 15, 1, 57. 277:2 The point of this is that κομήτης, whence our word cornet, means long-haired. 279:1 Lucian's glass clothing (ὑαλίνη) is a punning parody on wooden clothing (ξυλίνη), i.e. cotton (Herod. 7, 65). 281:1 Compare the story of the Graeae. 285:1 The capital of Birdland in Aristophanes' play, The Birds. 285:2 On the size of these, see Lucian's Syrian Goddess, 23. 287:1 This story of the whale is no longer considered a parody on Jonah's adventure, as there were other versions of the tale afloat in antiquity. 293:1 According to Herodotus (2, 46), μένδης was Egyptian for goat; but there is nothing goatish in the Tritonomendetes as Lucian describes them. 297:1 Compare the description of the sea-fight between Corinth and Corcyra in Thucydides 1. 48. 299:1 Herodotus (2, 156) speaks of a floating island in Egypt. 299:2 Cf. Il. 5, 4: "And tireless flames did burn on crest and shield." 301:1 Very likely a punning reference to some traveller's account of wooden (ξυλίναις) anchors.