ON ABUNDANCE OF FRIENDS.
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Plutarch and Shilleto, A. R. (Arthur Richard)
Source notes
342 For the circumstances see Euripides, "Medea," 1136 sq.
343 For the friendship of Theseus and Pirithous, see Pausanias, i. 17; x. 29. The line is from Euripides, "Pirithous," Fragm. 591. Cf. "On Shyness," § x.
344 Thucydides, ii. 51.
345 Bergk. p. 5003.
346 On Proteus, see Verg. "Georg." iv. 387 sq.; Ovid, "Art." i. 761; "Met." ii. 9; "Fasti," i. 367 sq., and especially Horace, "Epistles," i. i. 90: "Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo?"
347 Literally, "having no hearth of character," the hearth being an emblem of stability. Compare "How One may Discern a Flatterer from a Friend," § vii., where the same image is employed.