[355] Our author assigns this saying to Prodicus, "De Sanitate Praecepta," Sec. viii. But to Evenus, "Quaest. Conviv." Lib. vii. Prooemium, and "Platonicae Quaestiones," x. Sec. iii. [356] As was usual. See Homer, "Odyssey," i. 146. Cf. Plautus, "Persa," v. iii. 16: "Hoc age, accumbe: 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 Sallust, "De Catilinae Conjuratione," cap. xx.: "Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est." [365] "Proverbiale, quo utitur 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," Sec. 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," Sec. 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," Sec. 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," Sec. 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," Sec. ii.