[1] Present middle-passive participle of κλέπτω (literally, being the victim of theft), masculine nominative plural; quoted from somewhere, but not from the quotation given, which has the related noun κλέπτης . For the verb and the noun, see also kappa 1737, kappa 1738.
[2] Adler attributes this quotation either to Aelian or to Simeon Metaphrastes. Perhaps, rather Polybius, in whom there is a precise parallel for the phrase 'the faith entrusted to him' (16.22.2).