ON RESTRAINING ANGER.
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Plutarch and Shilleto, A. R. (Arthur Richard)
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651 On such social pests see Juvenal, i. 1-14.
652 See Pausanias, i. 2. Euripides left Athens about 409 B.C., and took up his abode for good in Macedonia at the court of Archelaus, where he died 406 B.C.
653 For a drachma was only worth 6 obols, or 9¾d. of our money, nearly = Roman denarius.
654 A talent was 6,000 drachmæ, or 36,000 obols, about £243 15s. of our money.
655 "Olynth." iii. p. 33, § 19.
656 Compare "On Education," § vii.
657 Our "Out of the frying-pan into the fire." Cf. "Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim."
658 By their having to borrow themselves.
659 Fragm. 947.
660 Or apophthegms, of which Plutarch and Lord Verulam have both left us collections.
661 Thucydides, ii. 40. Pericles is the speaker.
662 A slightly-changed line from Euripides' "Pirithous," Fragm. 591. Quoted correctly "On Abundance of Friends," § vii.
663 "Zenonis discipulus."—Reiske.
664 "Works and Days," 371.
665 Cf. Shakspere, "Hamlet," i. iii. 76.
666 Euripides, "Medea," 1078.
667 Our "Set a thief to catch a thief."
668 Or strigil. See Otto Jahn's note on Persius, v. 126.
669 "Forsitan illa quam nominat Pausanias, i. 27."—Reiske.
670 Literally "want of tune in." We cannot well keep up the metaphor. Compare with this passage, "That virtue may be taught," § ii.
671 Literally "crowns."
672 Thucydides, ii. 64. Pericles is the speaker. Quoted again in "How one may discern a flatterer from a friend," § xxxv.
673 "Est Bio Borysthenita, de quo vide Diog. Laërt."—Reiske.
674 "De Alexino Eleo vide Diog. Laërt., ii. 109. Nostri p. 1063, 3."—Reiske.
675 Antisthenes wrote a book called "Hercules." See Diogenes Laertius, vi. 16.