[355] Our author a.s.signs this saying to Prodicus, "De Sanitate Praecepta," -- viii. But to Evenus, "Quaest.
Conviv." Lib. vii. Prooemium, and "Platonicae Quaestiones," x. -- iii.
[356] As was usual. See Homer, "Odyssey," i. 146. Cf.
Plautus, "Persa," v. iii. 16: "Hoc age, acc.u.mbe: hunc diem suavem meum natalem agitemus amoenum: date aquam manibus: apponite mensam."
[357] From a play of Eupolis called "The Flatterers."
Cf. Terence, "Eunuchus," 489-491.
[358] See Athenaeus, 256 D. Compare also Valerius Maximus, ix. 1.
[359] "Videatur Casaubonus ad Athenaeum, vi. p. 243 A."--_Wyttenbach._
[360] "Republic," p. 361 A.
[361] See Herodotus, iii. 78.
[362] See Erasmus, "Adagia," p. 1883.
[363] "Proverbium etiam a Cicerone laudatum "De Amicitia," cap. vi.: Itaque non aqua, non igne, ut aiunt, pluribus locis utimur, quam amicitia. Notavit etiam Erasmus "Adag." p. 112."--_Wyttenbach._
[364] Compare Sall.u.s.t, "De Catilinae Conjuratione," cap.
xx.: "Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est."
[365] "Proverbiale, quo ut.i.tur Plutarchus in Alcibiade, p. 203 D. Iambus Tragici esse videtur, ad Neoptolemum dictus."--_Wyttenbach._
[366] As the polypus, or chameleon.
[367] Plato, "Phaedrus," p. 239 D.
[368] Wyttenbach compares Juvenal, iii. 100-108.
[369] See my note "On Abundance of Friends," -- ix.
Wyttenbach well points out the felicity of the expression here, "siquidem parasitus est [Greek: aoikos kai anestios]."
[370] Euripides, "Hippolytus," 219, 218. Cf. Ovid, "Heroides," iv. 41, 42.
[371] Compare "How one may be aware of one"s progress in virtue," -- x. Cf. also Horace, "Satires," ii. iii. 35; Quintilian, xi. 1.
[372] "Odyssey," xxii. 1.
[373] The demagogue is a kind of flatterer. See Aristotle, "Pol." iv. 4.
[374] Cf. Aristophanes, "Acharnians," 153, [Greek: hoper machimotaton thrakon ethnos].
[375] Plato was somewhat of a traveller, he three times visited Syracuse, and also travelled in Egypt.
[376] As to the polypus, see "On Abundance of Friends,"
-- ix.
[377] As "Fumum et opes _strepitumque_ Romae."--Horace, "Odes," iii. 29. 12.
[378] Homer, "Odyssey," xvi. 181.
[379] Sophocles, "Antigone," 523.
[380] As to these traits in Plato and Aristotle, compare "De Audiendis Poetis," -- viii. And as to Alexander, Plutarch tells us in his Life that he used to hold his head a little to the left, "Life," p. 666 B. See also "De Alexandri Fortuna aut Virtute," -- ii.
[381] "De Chamaeleonte Aristoteles "Hist. Animal." i. 11; "Part. Animal." iv. 11; Theophrastus Eclog. ap. Photium edit. Aristot. Sylburg. T. viii. p. 329: [Greek: metaballei de ho chamaileon eis panta ta chromata; plen ten eis to leukon kai to eruthron ou dechetai metabolen.]
Similiter Plinius "Hist. Nat." viii. 51."--_Wyttenbach._
[382] See Athenaeus, 249 F; 435 E.
[383] Cf. Juv. iii. 113; "Scire volunt secreta domus, atque inde timeri."
[384] Cf. Menander apud Stob. p. 437: [Greek: Ta deuter aiei ten gynaika dei legein, Ten d" egemonian ton olon ton andr" echein].
[385] As Lord Stowell used to say that "dinners lubricated business."
[386] Homer, "Iliad," xi. 643.
[387] Homer, "Odyssey," iv. 178, 179.
[388] Perhaps the poley-germander. See Pliny, "Nat.
Hist," xxi. 84. The line is from Nicander Theriac. 64.
[389] "Iliad," viii. 281, 282.
[390] "Iliad," x. 243.
[391] "Iliad," vii. 109, 110.
[392] Xenophon, "Agesilaus," xi. 5. p. 673 C.
[393] To filch the grain from the bin or granary would not of course be so important a theft as to steal the seed-stock preserved for sowing. So probably Cato, "De Re Rustica," v. -- iv.: "Segetem ne defrudet," sc.
villicus.
[394] Thucydides, iii. 82.
[395] Plato, "Republic," v. p. 474 E. Compare also Lucretius, iv. 1160-1170; Horace, "Satires," i. 3. 38 sq.
[396] This Ptolemy was a votary of Cybele, and a spiritual ancestor of General Booth. The worship of Cybele is well described by Lucretius, ii. 598-643.
[397] This was Ptolemy Auletes, as the former was Ptolemy Philopator.
[398] See Suetonius, "Nero," ch. 21.
[399] "Plerumque _minuta voce cantillare_."--_Wyttenbach._ What Milton would have called "a lean and flashy song."
[400] Naso suspendit adunco, as Horace, "Sat." i. 6. 5.