[Footnote 83: Αἴας. Α = 1, ι = 10 = 1, α = 1 (omitted), ς = 200 = 2. 1 + 1 + 2 = 4.]
[Footnote 84: The Homeric name for Paris.]
[Footnote 85: κύριον ὄνομα as opposed to μεταφορὸν ὄνομα, a name transferred from one to another, or family name.]
[Footnote 86: Not 8 but 4. ο = 70 = 7, δ = 4, υ = 400 = 4, σ = 200 = 2, ε = 5 (with duplicate omitted) = 22, which divided by 9 leaves 4, or by 7, only 1. The next sentence and a similar remark at the last sentence but one of the chapter are probably by a commentator or scribe and have slipped into the text by accident. Oddly enough, nothing is said as to what happens if the “roots” are equal, as they seem to be in this case.]
[Footnote 87: Another mistake. Α = 1, σ = 200 = 2, τ = 300 = 3, ε = 5, ρ = 100 = 1, ο = 70 = 7, π = 80 = 8, ι = 10 = 1 (with duplicates omitted) = 28, which divided by 9 leaves 1, or by 7, 0 = 7.]
[Footnote 88: ὅταν μέντοι δευτερόν τινες ἀγωνίζωνται. _Quum vero quidam iterum decertant de numeris_, Cr. But the allusion is almost certainly to two charioteers or combatants meeting in successive contests. Half the divination and magic of the early centuries refers to the affairs of the circus, and the text has nothing about _de numeris_.]
[Footnote 89: Lit., inspection of the forehead (or face), or what Lavater called physiognomy. The word was known to Ben Jonson, who uses it in his _Alchymist_. “By a rule, Captain. In metoposcopy, which I do work by. A certain star in the forehead which you see not,” etc.]
[Footnote 91: I have not thought it worth while to set down the various readings suggested by the different editors and translators for these “forms and qualities.” The whole of this chapter is taken from Ptolemy’s _Tetrabiblos_, and was corrupted by every copyist. The common type suggested with eyebrows meeting over the nose is plainly Alexandrian, as we know from the portraits on mummy-cases in Ptolemaic times.]
[Footnote 92: κοπιαταὶ. The dictionaries give “grave-digger,” which makes no sense.]
[Footnote 93: ὀφθαλμοῖς μέλασιν ὡς ἠλειμμένοις, “eyes black as if oiled.” Not a bad description of the eyes of a certain type of Levantine.]
[Footnote 94: The text has κολυμβῶσιν, which must refer to the eyes.]
[Footnote 95: Yet he twice calls them ψεῦσται, or “cheats.”]