AGAINST BORROWING MONEY.
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Plutarch and Shilleto, A. R. (Arthur Richard)
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846 A former king of Thebes. See Pausanias, ix. 5.
847 Called Daiphantes, Pausanias, x. 1.
848 Reading ἀπίστοις with Xylander.
849 The famous plague. See Thucydides, ii. 47-54.
850 The allusion is to the circumstances mentioned in § xii.
851 "Videtur idem cum sorita esse."—Reiske.
852 Compare our author, "De EI apud Delphos," § xviii. See also Seneca, "Epist.," lviii. p. 483; and Plato, "Cratylus," 402 A.
853 Sons of Dionysius.
854 Sons of Cassander.
855 "Iliad," vi. 146-149.
856 Compare Plato, "Phædrus," 276 B. These gardens of Adonis were what we might call flowerpot gardens. See Erasmus, "Adagia."
857 εὐθὺς seems the best reading, ἀεὶ is flat.
858 Apollo.
859 See § xii.
860 Hesiod, "Works and Days," 735, 736.
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 Pausanias, viii. 11; ix. 5, 10. See also Ovid, "Metamorphoses," Book iii. 100-130.
865 Compare "On Love," § ii.
866 At Mallus, in Cilicia. See Pausanias, i. 34.
867 Reading φιληδονίασ with Reiske.
868 Reading διαπεποικιλμένον ὄν with Wyttenbach.
869 A paronomasia on γένεσις as if ἐπὶ γὴν νεῦσις. We cannot English it.
870 Eurydice.
871 "μιγνύμενον, 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 τριβομένην τριβὴν ἀτελῆ.
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 Athenæus, 687 B.
880 Reading διὰ with Reiske.