[18] Cf. Plato, "Cratylus," p. 257, E. [Greek: o pai Hipponikou Hermogenes, palaia paroimia, oti chalepa ta kala estin ope echei mathein]. So Horace, "Sat." i. ix. 59, 60, "Nil sine magno Vita labore dedit mortalibus." [19] "Midias," p. 411, C. [20] _i.e._, occasionally and sparingly. [21] Diogenes Laertius assigns the remark to Aristippus, while Stobaeus fathers it on Aristo. [22] A favourite thought with the ancients. Compare Isocrates, "Admonitio ad Demonicum," p. 18; and Aristotle, "Nic. Eth.," iv. 3. [23] "Republic," vii. p. 489, E. [24] A famous Proverb. It is "the master's eye" generally, as in Xenophon, "Oeconom." xii. 20; and Aristotle, "Oeconom." i. 6. [25] "Works and Days," 361, 362. The lines were favourite ones with our author. He quotes them again, Sec. 3, of "How one may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue." [26] See Pausanias, ix. 9. Also Erasmus, "Adagia." [27] A fragment from the "Protesilaus" of Euripides. Our "It takes two to make a quarrel." [28] See Plutarch's Lysander. [29] Or _symposium_, where all sorts of liberties were taken. [30] I have softened his phrase. His actual words were very coarse, and would naturally be resented by Ptolemy. See Athenaeus, 621, A. [31] See "Iliad," v. 83; xvi. 334; xx, 477. [32] A fragment from the "Dictys" of Euripides. [33] "Republ." v. 463, F. sq. [34] Cf. Shakespeare's "Winter Tale," Act iii. sc. iii. 59-63. [35] As Horace's father did. See "Satires," Book i. Sat. iv. 105-129. [36] What we call _black sheep_. [37] From Simonides. Cf. Seneca, "Epist." xlix. "Punctum est quod vivimus, et adhuc puncto minus." [38] Reading with Wyttenbach, [Greek: hos ek logikes technes.] [39] Like _Carker_ in Dombey. [40] Compare the character of Micio in the "Adelphi" of Terence. [41] This saying is assigned by Diogenes Laertius to Pittacus. [42] Compare Plautus, "Asinaria," i. l. 74. "Argentum accepi: dote imperum vendidi." Compare also our author, "Whether Vice is sufficient to cause Unhappiness," Sec. i. [43] Wyttenbach thinks this treatise is not Plutarch's. He bases his conclusion partly on external, partly on internal, grounds. It is not quoted by Stobaeus, or any of the ancients, before the fourteenth century. And its style is not Plutarch's; it has many words foreign to Plutarch: it has "nescio quid novum ac peregrinum, ab illa Plutarchea copia et gravitate diversum leve et inane." Certainly its matter is superior to its manner. ON LOVE TO ONE'S OFFSPRING.