[649] See Horace's very amusing "Satire," i. ix., on such tiresome fellows. [650] [Greek: epitribo] is used in the same sense by Demosthenes, p. 288. [651] On such social pests see Juvenal, i. 1-14. [652] See Pausanias, i. 2. Euripides left Athens about 409 B.C., and took up his abode for good in Macedonia at the court of Archelaus, where he died 406 B.C. [653] For a drachma was only worth 6 obols, or 93/4_d._ of our money, nearly = Roman denarius. [654] A talent was 6,000 drachmae, or 36,000 obols, about L243 15_s._ of our money. [655] "Olynth." iii. p. 33, Sec. 19. [656] Compare "On Education," Sec. vii. [657] Our "Out of the frying-pan into the fire." Cf. "Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim." [658] By their having to borrow themselves. [659] Fragm. 947. [660] Or apophthegms, of which Plutarch and Lord Verulam have both left us collections. [661] Thucydides, ii. 40. Pericles is the speaker. [662] A slightly-changed line from Euripides' "Pirithous," Fragm. 591. Quoted correctly "On Abundance of Friends," Sec. vii. [663] "Zenonis discipulus."--_Reiske._ [664] "Works and Days," 371. [665] Cf. Shakspere, "Hamlet," i. iii. 76. [666] Euripides, "Medea," 1078. [667] Our "Set a thief to catch a thief." [668] Or strigil. See Otto Jahn's note on Persius, v. 126. [669] "Forsitan illa quam nominat Pausanias, i. 27."--_Reiske._ [670] Literally "want of tune in." We cannot well keep up the metaphor. Compare with this passage, "That virtue may be taught," Sec. ii. [671] Literally "crowns." [672] Thucydides, ii. 64. Pericles is the speaker. Quoted again in "How one may discern a flatterer from a friend," Sec. XXXV. [673] "Est Bio Borysthenita, de quo vide Diog. Laert."--_Reiske._ [674] "De Alexino Eleo vide Diog. Laert., ii. 109. Nostri p. 1063, 3."--_Reiske._ [675] Antisthenes wrote a book called "Hercules." See Diogenes Laertius, vi. 16. ON RESTRAINING ANGER. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN SYLLA AND FUNDANUS.