HOW A MAN MAY BE BENEFITED BY HIS ENEMIES.
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Plutarch and Shilleto, A. R. (Arthur Richard)
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468 And so being dainty. See Athenæus, ii. ch. 76.
469 We see from this and other places that the mountebanks and quacks of the Middle Ages and later times existed also among the ancients. Human nature in its great leading features is ever the same. "Omne ignotum pro magnifico est."
470 "Laws," p. 729 C.
471 Homer, "Odyssey," i. 157; iv. 70; xvii. 592.
472 Ptolemy V., Epiphanes. The circumstances are related by Polybius, xv. 29; xvii. 35.
473 See "Acharnians," 501, 502.
474 Thucydides, i. 70: καὶ ἅμα, εἴπερ τινὲς και ἄλλοι, νομίζομεν ἄξιοι εἷναι τοῖς πέλας ψόγον ἐπενεγκεῖν.
475 See our Author, "Apophthegmata," p. 190 E.
476 A line of Euripides, quoted again in "How a Man may be benefited by his Enemies," § iv.
477 Homer, "Iliad," xi. 313.
478 Do. viii. 234, 235.
479 Do. ix. 461.
480 "Iliad," xiii. 116-119.
481 Do. v. 171, 172.
482 Euripides, "Phœnissæ," 1688.
483 Euripides, "Hercules Furens," 1250.
484 "Iliad," v. 800. Athene is the speaker.
485 A play by Sophocles, now only in fragments, relating the life of Achilles in the island of Scyros, the scene of his amour with Deidamia, the daughter of Lycomedes, by whom he became the father of Pyrrhus.
486 Thucydides, ii. 64. Quoted again in "On Shyness," § xviii.
487 See also "De Audiendo," § x.
488 πότους comes in rather curiously here. Can any other word lurk under it?
489 "Phœnissæ," 528, 529.
490 Homer, "Iliad," vi. 347.
491 Do. vi. 326.
492 Homer, "Iliad," ix. 109, 110.
493 In Dindorf's "Poetæ Scenici Græci," Fragment 152.
494 As it is not quite clear why Achilles should have been angry about his supper, διὰ τὸ δειπνὸν, apropos of the context, Wyttenbach ingeniously suggests, as this lost play of Sophocles was called Συν δεῖπνον, that Plutarch may have written ἐν τῷ Δείπνῳ.
495 Compare "How One may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," § xi.
496 "Ductum e proverbiali dictione βαλόντα ἐκφεύγειν, emisso telo aufugere."—Wyttenbach.