AGAINST BORROWING MONEY.
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Plutarch and Shilleto, A. R. (Arthur Richard)
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806 In the temple at Delphi, the scene of the discussion, as we see later on, §§ vii. xii.
807 Reading ἐδόκει with Reiske.
808 Euripides, "Orestes," 420. Cf. "Ion," 1615.
809 Thucydides, iii. 38.
810 See the circumstances in Pausanias, iv. 17 and 22.
811 Compare Petronius, "Satyricon," 44: "Dii pedes lanatos habent." Compare also "Tibullus," i. 9. 4: "Sera tamen tacitis Pœna venit pedibus."
812 Reading μάλιστα (for μόλις) with Wyttenbach.
813 An allusion to the proverb Ὄψε θεῶν ἀλέουσι μύλοι, ἀλέουσι δὲ λεπτά. See Erasmus, "Adagia," p. 1864.
814 Cf. Plato, "Republic," 472 A.
815 See Note, "On Abundance of Friends," § ii.
816 Reading εἰ γὰρ.
817 Or a world.
818 See above, § ii.
819 Quoted also in "On restraining Anger," § ii.
820 It seems necessary to read either πορίζειν with Mez, or ὁρίζειν with Wyttenbach.
821 Compare Aristophanes, "Vespæ," 438.
822 See Pausanias, viii. 27.
823 Pindar.
824 Homer, "Iliad," xv. 641, 642.
825 See Thucydides, i. 127.
826 See Pausanias, v. 17; viii. 24; ix. 41; x. 29.
827 Hesiod, "Works and Days," 266.
828 Ibid. 265. Compare Pausanias, ii. 9; Ovid, A. A. i. 655, 656.
829 "Significat martyres Christianos, in tunica molesta fumantes."—Reiske.
830 Like the sword of Damocles. See Horace, "Odes," iii. 1. 17, 21.
831 See also Pausanias, iii. 17.
832 Surely ἄν ἀνατρέποι must be read.
833 Compare "On Curiosity," § x.
834 The reading is very doubtful. I adopt ἡδονῆς μὲν εὐθὑς κενιν χάριν, ἐλπίδος ἔρημον εὑρίσκουσι.
835 Euripides, "Ino."
836 See Herodotus, vi. 86; Juvenal, xiii, 199-207.
837 The company are in the temple at Delphi, be it remembered.
838 Called Iadmon in Herodotus, ii. 134, where this story is also told.
839 Wyttenbach suggests Daulis.
840 To Xerxes.
841 The allusion is to the well-known story of Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus, who is supposed to have dwelt in the island of Sicily, where Agathocles was tyrant.
842 See Pausanias, viii. 14.
843 Two were to be sent for 1,000 continuous years. So the Oracle.
844 See Pausanias ix. 30; Herodotus, v. 6.
845 See Pausanias, vii. 27; Athenæus, 372 A.