[441] "Auri plumbique oppositio fere proverbialis est. Petronius, 'Satyricon,' 43. Plane fortunae filius: in manu illius plumbum aureum fiebat."--_Wyttenbach._ The passage about the Lydian chariot is said to be by Pindar in our author, "Nicias," p. 523 D. [442] Wyttenbach compares Seneca, "Epist." cxxiii. p. 495: "Horum sermo multum nocet: nam etiamsi non statim officit, semina in animo relinquit, sequiturque nos etiam cum ab illis discesserimus, resurrecturum postea malum." [443] Compare Cicero, "De Amicitia," xxvi.: "Assentatio, quamvis perniciosa sit, nocere tamen nemini potest, nisi ei, qui eam recipit atque ea delectatur. Ita fit, ut is assentatoribus patefaciat aures suas maxime, qui ipse sibi assentetur et se maxime ipse delectet." [444] Compare Sec. i. [445] Compare our Author, "Quaestiones Convivalium," viii. p. 717 F. [446] So Horace, "Satires," i. 2, 24: "Dum vitant stulti vitia in contraria currunt." [447] Homer, "Iliad," xiv. 84, 85. [448] Compare Cicero, "De Officiis," i. 25: "Omnis autem animadversio et castigatio contumelia vacare debet: neque ad ejus, qui punitur aliquem aut verbis fatigat, sed ad reipublicae utilitatem referri." [449] "Iliad," xi. 654. [450] "Iliad," xvi. 33-35. [451] Cf. Plutarch, "Phocion," p. 746 D. [452] A proverb of persons on the brink of destruction. Wells among the ancients were uncovered. [453] "Iliad," ii. 215, of Thersites. As to Theagenes, see Seneca, "De Ira," ii. 23. [454] Literally, "brings a cloud over fair weather." [455] The MSS. have Lydian. Lysian Dionysus is also found in Pausanias, ix. 16. Lyaeus is suggested by Wyttenbach, and read by Hercher. Lysius or Lyaeus will both be connected with [Greek: luo], and so refer to Dionysus as the god that looses or frees us from care. See Horace, "Epodes," ix. 37, 38. [456] Compare Juvenal, iii. 73, 74: "Sermo Promptus et Isaeo torrentior." [457] "Orestes," 667. [458] Euripides, "Ion," 732. [459] "Anabasis," ii. 6, 11. [460] Perhaps by Euripides. [461] "Olynth." ii. p. 8 C; "Pro Corona," 341 C. [462] Homer, "Iliad," ix. 108, 109. They are the words of Nestor to Agamemnon. [463] See Herodotus, i. 30-32. [464] See Plato's "Symposium," p. 215 E. [465] See Plato, "Epist." iv. p. 321 B. [466] See our author, "Apophthegmata," p. 179 C. [467] Compare Horace, "Satires," i. 1. 7, 8: "Quid enim, concurritur: horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta." [468] And so being dainty. See Athenaeus, ii. ch. 76. [469] We see from this and other places that the mountebanks and quacks of the Middle Ages and later times existed also among the ancients. Human nature in its great leading features is ever the same. "Omne ignotum pro magnifico est." [470] "Laws," p. 729 C.