[549] See Ovid, "Tristia," iv. 4, 55-58. [550] For example, Horace, "Epistles," i. 2, 62: "Ira furor brevis est" I read [Greek: homotoichos] with Mez. [551] Homer, "Odyssey," xiv. 463-465. [552] Ibid. 466. [553] Compare the German proverb, "Thought when sober, said when drunk"--"Nuchtern gedacht, voll gesagt." [554] Cf. Quintilian, x. 1, 78: "His aetate Lysias major, subtilis atque elegans et quo nihil, si oratori satis est docere, quaeras perfectius. Nihil enim est inane, nihil arcessitum; puro tamen fonti quam magno flumini propior." Cf. ix. 4, 17. [555] Somewhat like Pindar, "Pyth." i. 1. 1, 2. [556] "Odyssey," xii. 452, 453. [557] See Cicero, "Ad Fam." vii. 18; Catullus, xxii. 5, 6. [558] See "Iliad," xiv. 214-217. [559] "Allusio ad Homericum [Greek: epei ponos allos epeigei.]"--_Xylander._ [560] "Laws," xi. p. 935 A. [561] So true are the words of AEschylus, [Greek: glosse mataia zemia prostribetai].--"Prom." 329. [562] Our "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." [563] "Non Citticus, sed Eleates. v. Cic. Tuscul. ii. 22, et Nat. Deor. 3, 33."--_Reiske._ [564] See Pausanias, i. 23. Leaena means "lioness." On the conspiracy see Thucydides, vi. 54-59. [565] Homer, "Odyssey," xix. 494. Plutarch quotes from memory. The nurse's name was Euryclea. [566] Odyssey," xix. 210-212. Quoted again "On Moral Virtue," Sec. iv. [567] Literally _bark_. See "Odyssey," xx. 13, 16. [568] "Odyssey," xx. 23. [569] See "Odyssey," ix. [Greek: Kyklopeia]. [570] Euripides, "Ino." Fragment, 416. [571] "Significat Q. Caecilium Metellum, de quo Liv. xl. 45, 46."--_Reiske._ [572] Euripides, "Ino." Fragm. 415. Compare St. James, iii. 5, 6. [573] Fabius Maximus. So Tacitus, "Annals," i. 5, who relates this story somewhat differently. [574] See Tacitus, "Annals," i. 3. As to his fate, see "Annals," i. 6. [575] Tiberius Nero, who actually did succeed Augustus. [576] The Emperor's wife. [577] So it is in Sec. xii. But perhaps here it means, "I wish you had more sense, Fabius!" [578] Adopting the reading of Reiske. [579] Reading [Greek: phorutou] or [Greek: phoryton], as Wyttenbach. [580] Reading [Greek: katechein dynantai] with Reiske. [581] See Sophocles, Fragm. 162. [582] Homer, "Iliad," x. 457. [583] Compare "Moralia," p. 177 A; Horace, "Satires," i. 7. 3: "Omnibus et lippis notum et tonsoribus." [584] Homer, "Iliad," xxii. 207. [585] Sophocles, "Antigone," 317-319. [586] See Pausanias, iii. 17; iv. 15; x. 5. [587] Compare the idea of the people of Melita, Acts xxviii. 4. [588] An Allusion to Dolon in Homer, "Iliad," x., 374, sq. according to Xylander. [589] Quoted again by our author in his "Publicola," p. 105 B., and assigned to Epicharmus.