[519] See Propertius, ii. 1. 63, 64; Ovid, "Metamorphoses," xii. 112; xiii. 171; "Tristia," v. 2. 15, 16; "Remedia Amoris," 47, 48; Erasmus, "Adagia," p. 221. [520] "Jason Pheraeus cognomine Prometheus dictus est. Vide Ciceronem, 'Nat. Deor.' iii. 29; Plinium, vii. 51; Valerium Maximum, i. 8, Extem. 6."--_Wytttenbach._ [521] She was a Vestal Virgin. See Livy, iv. 44. [522] See Thucydides, i. 135, 136. [523] From a lost play of Euripides. Compare the proverb, [Greek: pathemata mathemata]. [524] "Laws," v. p. 731 E. [525] Told again "Reg. et Imperator. Apophthegm.," p. 175 B. [526] A favourite image of Homer, employed "Iliad," iv. 350; xiv. 83; "Odyssey," i. 64; xxiii. 70. [527] "Laws," xi. p. 935 A. Quoted again "On Talkativeness," Sec. vii. [528] See Pausanias, v. 14. [529] From a Fragment of Pindar. [530] See Suetonius, "Divus Julius," 75: "Sed et statuas L. Sullae atque Pompeii a plebe disjectas reposuit." [531] Compare our author, "Quaestiones Convivalium," viii. p. 729 E. [532] No doubt in the interest of the defendant. See our author, "Cato Minor," p. 769 B. [533] A Greek proverb, see Erasmus, "Adagia," p. 921. [534] So Cicero, "Nat. Deor." ii. 56: "In aedibus architecti avertunt ab oculis naribusque dominorum ea quae profluentia necessario taetri essent aliquid habitura." [535] "Works and Days," 23-26. Our "Two of a trade seldom agree." [536] Compare "How One may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," Sec. xiv. [537] For as the English proverb says, "Hatred is blind as well as love." [538] "Laws," v. p. 728 A. [539] Quoted more fully "How One may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," Sec. vi. [540] "Laws," v. p. 731 E. See also above, Sec. vii. ON TALKATIVENESS.[541] Sec. I. Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen. It is a self-chosen deafness of people who, I take it, blame nature for giving us one tongue and two ears. If then the following advice of Euripides to a foolish hearer was good, "I cannot fill one that can nought retain, Pumping up wise words for an unwise man;" one might more justly say to a talkative man, or rather about a talkative man, "I cannot fill one that will nothing take, Pumping up wise words for an unwise man;"