“The evil of counterfeit silver and gold is not intolerable, O Cyrnus, and to a wise man is not difficult of detection; But if the mind of a friend is hidden in his breast, If he is false,[939] and has a treacherous heart within, This is the basest thing for mortals, caused by God, And of all things the hardest to detect,”-- Euripides writes: “Oh Zeus, why hast thou given to men clear tests Of spurious gold, while on the body grows No mark sufficing to discover clear The wicked man?” Hyperides himself also says, “There is no feature of the mind impressed on the countenance of men.” Again, Stasinus having composed the line: “Fool, who, having slain the father, leaves the children,”-- Xenophon[940] says, “For I seem to myself to have acted in like manner, as if one who killed the father should spare his children.” And Sophocles having written in the _Antigone_: “Mother and father being in Hades now, No brother ever can to me spring forth,”-- Herodotus says, “Mother and father being no more, I shall not have another brother.” In addition to these, Theopompus having written: “Twice children are old men in very truth;” And before him Sophocles in _Peleus_: “Peleus, the son of Æacus, I, sole housekeeper, Guide, old as he is now, and train again, For the aged man is once again a child,”-- Antipho the orator says, “For the nursing of the old is like the nursing of children.” Also the philosopher Plato says, “The old man then, as seems, will be twice a child.” Further, Thucydides having said, “We alone bore the brunt at Marathon,”[941]--Demosthenes said, “By those who bore the brunt at Marathon.” Nor will I omit the following. Cratinus having said in the _Pytine_:[942] “The preparation perchance you know,”-- Andocides the orator says, “The preparation, gentlemen of the jury, and the eagerness of our enemies, almost all of you know.” Similarly also Nicias, in the speech on the deposit, against Lysias, says, “The preparation and the eagerness of the adversaries, ye see, O gentlemen of the jury.” After him Æschines says, “You see the preparation, O men of Athens, and the line of battle.” Again, Demosthenes having said, “What zeal and what canvassing, O men of Athens, have been employed in this contest, I think almost all of you are aware;” and Philinus similarly, “What zeal, what forming of the line of battle, gentlemen of the jury, have taken place in this contest, I think not one of you is ignorant.” Isocrates, again, having said, “As if she were related to his wealth, not him,” Lysias says in the _Orphics_, “And he was plainly related not to the persons, but to the money.” Since Homer also having written: