PLUTARCH SENDS GREETING TO PACCIUS.
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Plutarch and Shilleto, A. R. (Arthur Richard)
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730 Quoted again by our author "On Restraining Anger," § xvi.
731 As will be seen, I follow Wyttenbach's guidance in this very corrupt passage, which is a true crux.
732 Reading δεδορκότες.
733 See "On Curiosity," § i.
734 Simonides.
735 See Herodotus, vii. 56.
736 A mina was 100 drachmæ (i.e. £4. 1s. 3d.), and 600 obols.
737 A slave's ordinary dress.
738 One of the Seven Wise Men.
739 Homer, "Iliad," iii. 182.
740 Homer, "Iliad," ii. 111.
741 Words of Agamemnon to the House Porter. Euripides, "Iphigenia in Aulis," 17-19.
742 "Iliad," xviii. 105, 106.
743 See Pausanias, x. 24.
744 Pindar, Fragm., 258. Quoted "On Moral Virtue," § xii.
745 Homer, "Iliad," xvii. 61; "Odyssey," vi. 130.
746 A famous breed of dogs from the island Melita, near Dalmatia. See Pliny, "Hist. Nat.," iii. 26, extr. § 30; xxx. 5, extr. § 14.
747 That Non omnia possumus omnes.