[266] Sentences borrowed from some author or other, such, as we still possess from the hands of Hermogenes and Aphthonius; compare the collection of bon-mots of Greek courtesans in Athenaeus. [267] A reference to AEsop's Fable, [Greek: Leon kai Halopez]. Cf. Horace, "Epistles," i. i. 73-75. [268] This passage is alluded to also in "On Love to one's Offspring." Sec. ii. [269] Madvig's text. [270] Thucydides, i. 18. [271] Homer, "Iliad," ix. 323, 324. Quoted also in "On Love to One's Offspring," Sec. ii. [272] The remark about Demosthenes has somehow slipped out, as Wyttenbach has suggested. [273] Does this refer to [Greek: Peleiadeo] before [Greek: Hachileos] in "Iliad," i. 1? [274] An allusion to some passage in a Play that has not come down to us. [275] Compare our Author, _De Audiendis Poetis_, Sec. xi. [Greek: hosper ho Agesilaos ouk hypemeinen hypo tou kalou philethenai prosiontos]. [276] Reading with Madvig and Hercher, [Greek: to gar auton], sq. [277] Literally _cork-like_, so vain, empty. So Horace, "levior cortice," "Odes," iii. 9, 22. [278] Marks of a philosopher among the ancients. Compare our Author, "How one may discern a flatterer from a friend," Sec. vii. [279] "Odyssey," xvi. 187. [280] AEschylus, "Toxotides," Fragm. 224. Quoted again by our author, "On Love," Sec. xxi. [281] "Turpe habitum fuisse in caupona conspici, et hoc exemplo apparet, et alia sunt indicia. Isocrates Orat. Areopagitica laudans antiquorum Atheniensium mores, p. 257: [Greek: en kapeleio de phagein e piein oudeis han oiketes epieikes etolmese]: quem locum citans Athenaeus alia etiam adfert xiii. p. 566, F."--_Wyttenbach._ [282] Wyttenbach compares Quintilian, "Institut. Orat." iii. 6, p. 255: "Nam et Hippocrates clarus arte medicinae videtur honestissime fecisse, qui quosdam errores suos, ne posteri errarent, confessus est." [283] Homer, "Odyssey," vi. 187. [284] Homer, "Odyssey," xxiv. 402. [285] Plato, "Republic," ix. p. 571, D. [286] A somewhat similar story about Stilpo is told in Athenaeus, x. p. 423, D. [287] So Haupt and Herscher very ingeniously for [Greek: hiereusin]. [288] Adopting the suggestion of Wyttenbach as to the reading. The Dorian measure was grave and severe, the Lydian soft and effeminate. [289] See our author, "Apophthegmata Laconica," p. 220 C. [290] Plato, "Symposium," p. 25, E. [291] This line is quoted again by our author, "On Moral Virtue," Sec. vii. [292] Plato, "Laws," iv. p. 711, E. [293] See those splendid lines of Lucretius, iv. 1155-1169. [294] "Res valde celebrata ex Institutione Cyri Xenophontea, v. 1, 2; vi. 1, 17."--_Wyttenbach._ [295] This line is very like a Fragment in the "Danae" of Euripides. Dind. (328).