[861] Compare the French Proverb, "L'occasion fait le larron." And Juvenal's "Nemo repente fuit turpissimus." [862] So Reiske very ingeniously. [863] A rather far-fetched pedigree. [864] See Pansanias, viii. 11; ix. 5, 10. See also Ovid, "Metamorphoses," Book iii. 100-130. [865] Compare "On Love," Sec. ii. [866] At Mallus, in Cilicia. See Pausanias, i. 34. [867] Reading [Greek: philedonias ischys] with Reiske. [868] Reading [Greek: diapepoikilmenon on] with Wyttenbach. [869] A paronomasia on [Greek: genesis] as if [Greek: epi gen neusis]. We cannot English it. [870] Eurydice. [871] "[Greek: mignymenon], Turn, et Bong.," _Reiske._ Surely the right reading. [872] Latin Puteoli. [873] Vespasian. See Suetonius, "Vespasian," ch. 24, as to the particulars of his death. [874] The reading is very doubtful. I have followed Wyttenbach in reading [Greek: tribomenen triben atele]. [875] Such as that of the Danaides. So Wyttenbach. [876] Adopting the arrangement of Wyttenbach. [877] Compare Homer, "Odyssey," xxiv. 5-10. [878] See Pausanias, vii. 17, for a sneaking kindness for Nero. [879] See Athenaeus, 687 B. [880] Reading [Greek: dia] with Reiske. AGAINST BORROWING MONEY. Sec. I. Plato in his Laws[881] does not permit neighbours to use one another's water, unless they have first dug for themselves as far as the clay, and reached ground that is unsuitable for a well. For clay, having a rich and compact nature, absorbs the water it receives, and does not let it pass through. But he allows people that cannot make a well of their own to use their neighbour's water, for the law ought to relieve necessity. Ought there not also to be a law about money, that people should not borrow of others, nor go to other people's sources of income, until they have first examined their own resources at home, and collected, as by drops, what is necessary for their use? But nowadays from luxury and effeminacy and lavish expenditure people do not use their own resources, though they have them, but borrow from others at great interest without necessity. And what proves this very clearly is the fact that people do not lend money to the needy, but only to those who, wanting an immediate supply, bring a witness and adequate security for their credit, so that they can be in no actual necessity of borrowing.[882]