^{page 25 note 1} In this region the inhabitants ‘live much longer than here’, cf. Clouds, l.c.; and the sun and other celestial bodies are much more clearly seen, cf. ibid. 225. Have such correspondences been observed? In his note on 108 c 8 Burnet put foward the suggestion that the Phaedo's account of the Earth represents Socrates' own view; yet even he does not mention these points. However, he does indicate broader affinities on p. xlii of his Introduction.

^{page 26 note 1} That is, error; Burnet, Thales to Plato, 65 fin.

^{page 26 note 2} Cf. Burnet, E.G. Ph. ed. 4, p. 168.

^{page 26 note 3} Introd. to Phaedo, p. xl, n. 3.

^{page 26 note 1} Cf. further urbis (simply), coupled, again, with in terris, Hor. Carm. II. xx. 5.

^{page 26 note 2} ‘What is Earth's desire for rain but the projection of man's own inescapable need?’ asks R. (As if Earth did not need rain; it is man's anthropomorphic way of describing Earth's need.) But what has man's inescapable need to do with this passage of Valerius?