[Footnote 15:  A gap exists in the Medicean MS. because the first leaf in the third quaternion is lacking.  The omission may be partly filled out from Xiphilinus (p. 7): 

“He returned from Armenia and arbitrated disputes besides conducting other business for kings and potentates who came to him.  He confirmed some in possession of their kingdoms, added to the principalities of others, and curtailed and humbled the excessive powers of a few.  Hollow Syria and Phoenicia which had lately ridden themselves of their rulers and had been made the prey of the Arabians and Tigranes were united.  Antiochus had dared to ask them back, but he did not secure them.  Instead, they were combined into one province and received laws so that their government was carried on in the Roman fashion.”

As to the words at the end of chapter 7, “although her child was with,” an inkling of their significance may be had from Appian, Mithridates, chapter 107.  Stratonice had betrayed to Pompey a treasurehouse on the sole condition that if he should capture Xiphares, a favorite son of hers, he should spare him.  This disloyalty to Mithridates enraged the latter, who gained possession of the youth and slew him, while the mother beheld the deed of revenge from a distance.]

[Footnote 16:  L. Annius Bellienus.]

[Footnote 17:  L. Luscius.]

[Footnote 18:  Or “and these were” (according to the MS. reading selected).]

[Footnote 19:  Xiphilinus adds:  “after approaching and offering him this.”]

[Footnote 20:  I.e., Jehovah.]

[Footnote 21:  Sol and Luna:  or the sun and moon.  The words appear in the text without any article and may be personified.]

[Footnote 22:  Dio attempts in chapters 18 and 19 to explain why the days of the week are associated with the names of the planets.  It should be borne in mind that the order of the planets with reference to their distance from the earth (counting from farthest to nearest) is as follows:  Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon.  The custom of naming the days may then have arisen, he says, (1) by regarding the gods as originally presiding over separate days assigned by the principle of the tetrachord (I.e., skipping two stars in your count each time as you go over the list) so that you get this order:  the day of Saturn, of the Sun, of the Moon, of Mars, of Mercury, of Jupiter, of Venus (Saturday to Friday, inclusive); or (2) by regarding the gods as properly gods of the hours, which are assigned in order, beginning with Saturn, as in the list above,—­and allowing it to be understood that that god who is found by this system to preside over the first hour shall also give his name to the day in question.]

[Footnote 23:  See Book Thirty-six, chapter 43.]

[Footnote 24:  After “join him” there is a gap in the MS. The words necessary to complete this sentence and to begin the next were supplied by Reiske.]