[590] So Shakspere has taught us, "Brevity is the soul of wit."--_Hamlet_, Act ii Sc. 2. [591] "In Protagora."--_Xylander._ [592] That is, is all kernel. See passim our author's "Apophthegmata Laconica." [593] Or, _apophthegmatic nature_. [594] Dionysius the younger, tyrant of Syracuse, was expelled, and afterwards kept a school at Corinth. That is the allusion. It would be like saying "Remember Napoleon at St. Helena." [595] See Pausanias, x. 24. [596] See Plato, "Charmides," 165 A. [597] A title applied to Apollo first by Herodotus, i. 91, from his ambiguous ([Greek: loxa]) oracles. [598] Part of the words of an oracle of the Pythian Priestess, slightly changed. The whole oracle may be seen in Herodotus, i. 47. [599] Proverb of cross purposes. [600] Reading [Greek: exerasthai] with Duebner. [601] Catullus calls him "tumidus," _i.e._ long-winded, 95, 10. See also Propertius, iii. 34-32. He was a Greek poet, a contemporary of Socrates and Plato, and author of a Thebaid. Pausanias mentions him, viii. 25; ix. 35. [602] The mediaeval proverb, _Ubi dolor ibi digitus_. [603] A proverbial expression for having no judgment. See Sophocles, Fragm. 307; Plato, "Charmides," 154 B; Erasmus, "Adagia." So we say a person's mind is a blank sheet on a subject he knows nothing about. [604] Euripides, Fragm. 202. Quoted also by Plato, "Gorgias," 484 E. [605] Reading with Reiske, [Greek: misthon auto dounai to mikron siopesai me dynamenos]. [606] A celebrated Greek historian, and pupil of Isocrates. See Cicero, "De Oratore," ii. 13. [607] Of Tarsus. See Cicero, "De Officiis," iii. 12. ON CURIOSITY.[608]