[1] Substantively similar glossing already in Hesychius epsilon2426, citing (a contextless fragment of) Aristophanes; and cf. generally epsilon 1000, epsilon 1005, epsilon 1008, epsilon 1009.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler notes the attribution to Aelian by Bruhn.) Pheretima merits her own entry at phi 220, where the quotation reappears; and see also under epsilon 3559. She is the evil daughter of Battos of Kyrene who features prominently in Herodotus 4.162-205. Note particularly 4.201.3, where the present quotation's w(s a)\n e)mpedorkoi/h appears as i(/na e)mpedorke/oien; the plural there refers to the Persians who are besieging Barka, but it is Pheretima who has invited them in (to restore her usurped dynasty), and the episode, concerning a concealed excavation, is the same one in both passages.