[471] Homer, "Odyssey," i. 157; iv. 70; xvii. 592. [472] Ptolemy V., Epiphanes. The circumstances are related by Polybius, xv. 29; xvii. 35. [473] See "Acharnians," 501, 502. [474] Thucydides, i. 70: [Greek: kai hama, eiper tines kai alloi, nomizomen axioi einai tois pelas psogon epenenkein]. [475] See our Author, "Apophthegmata," p. 190 E. [476] A line of Euripides, quoted again in "How a Man may be benefited by his Enemies," Sec. iv. [477] Homer, "Iliad," xi. 313. [478] Do. viii. 234, 235. [479] Do. ix. 461. [480] "Iliad," xiii. 116-119. [481] Do. v. 171, 172. [482] Euripides, "Phoenissae," 1688. [483] Euripides, "Hercules Furens," 1250. [484] "Iliad," v. 800. Athene is the speaker. [485] A play by Sophocles, now only in fragments, relating the life of Achilles in the island of Scyros, the scene of his amour with Deidamia, the daughter of Lycomedes, by whom he became the father of Pyrrhus. [486] Thucydides, ii. 64. Quoted again in "On Shyness," Sec. xviii. [487] See also "De Audiendo," Sec. x. [488] [Greek: potous] comes in rather curiously here. Can any other word lurk under it? [489] "Phoenissae," 528, 529. [490] Homer, "Iliad," vi. 347. [491] Do. vi. 326. [492] Homer, "Iliad," ix. 109, 110. [493] In Dindorf's "Poetae Scenici Graeci," Fragment 152. [494] As it is not quite clear why Achilles should have been angry about his supper, [Greek: dia to deipnon], apropos of the context, Wyttenbach ingeniously suggests, as this lost play of Sophocles was called [Greek: Syn deipnon], that Plutarch may have written [Greek: en to Deipno]. [495] Compare "How One may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," Sec. xi. [496] "Ductum e proverbiali dictione [Greek: balonta ekpheugein], emisso telo aufugere."--_Wyttenbach._ HOW A MAN MAY BE BENEFITED BY HIS ENEMIES.