HOW A MAN MAY BE BENEFITED BY HIS ENEMIES.
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Plutarch and Shilleto, A. R. (Arthur Richard)
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428 These are two successive lines found three times in Homer, "Iliad," xiv. 195, 196; xviii. 426, 427; "Odyssey," v. 89, 90. The two lines are in each case spoken by one person.
429 Probably lines from "The Flatterer" of Menander.
430 From the "Ino" of Euripides.
431 From the "Erechtheus" of Euripides.
432 We know from Athenæus, p. 420 D, that Apelles and Arcesilaus were friends.
433 An allusion to Hesiod, "Works and Days," 235. Cf. Horace, "Odes," iv. 5. 23.
434 See the beautiful story of Baucis and Philemon, Ovid, "Metamorphoses," viii. 626-724: "Cura pii dis sunt, et qui coluere coluntur."
435 Compare Terence, "Andria," 43, 44. So too Seneca, "De Beneficiis," ii. 10: "Hæc enim beneficii inter duos lex est: alter statim oblivisci debet dati, alter accepti nunquam. Lacerat animum et premit frequens meritorum commemoratio."
436 A similar story about the Samians and Lacedæmonians is told by Aristotle, "Œconom." ii. 9.
437 A line from Euripides, "Iphigenia in Aulis," 407.
438 Also in "Conjugal Precepts," § xxix.
439 See Persius, iii. 21, 22, with Jahn's Note.
440 See "On Love," § xxi.
441 "Auri plumbique oppositio fere proverbialis est. Petronius, 'Satyricon,' 43. Plane fortunæ filius: in manu illius plumbum aureum fiebat."—Wyttenbach. The passage about the Lydian chariot is said to be by Pindar in our author, "Nicias," p. 523 D.
442 Wyttenbach compares Seneca, "Epist." cxxiii. p. 495: "Horum sermo multum nocet: nam etiamsi non statim officit, semina in animo relinquit, sequiturque nos etiam cum ab illis discesserimus, resurrecturum postea malum."
443 Compare Cicero, "De Amicitia," xxvi.: "Assentatio, quamvis perniciosa sit, nocere tamen nemini potest, nisi ei, qui eam recipit atque ea delectatur. Ita fit, ut is assentatoribus patefaciat aures suas maxime, qui ipse sibi assentetur et se maxime ipse delectet."
444 Compare § i.
445 Compare our Author, "Quaestiones Convivalium," viii. p. 717 F.
446 So Horace, "Satires," i. 2, 24: "Dum vitant stulti vitia in contraria currunt."
447 Homer, "Iliad," xiv. 84, 85.
448 Compare Cicero, "De Officiis," i. 25: "Omnis autem animadversio et castigatio contumelia vacare debet: neque ad ejus, qui punitur aliquem aut verbis fatigat, sed ad reipublicæ utilitatem referri."
449 "Iliad," xi. 654.
450 "Iliad," xvi. 33-35.
451 Cf. Plutarch, "Phocion," p. 746 D.
452 A proverb of persons on the brink of destruction. Wells among the ancients were uncovered.
453 "Iliad," ii. 215, of Thersites. As to Theagenes, see Seneca, "De Ira," ii. 23.
454 Literally, "brings a cloud over fair weather."
455 The MSS. have Lydian. Lysian Dionysus is also found in Pausanias, ix. 16. Lyæus is suggested by Wyttenbach, and read by Hercher. Lysius or Lyæus will both be connected with λύω, and so refer to Dionysus as the god that looses or frees us from care. See Horace, "Epodes," ix. 37, 38.
456 Compare Juvenal, iii. 73, 74: "Sermo Promptus et Isæo torrentior."
457 "Orestes," 667.
458 Euripides, "Ion," 732.
459 "Anabasis," ii. 6, 11.
460 Perhaps by Euripides.
461 "Olynth." ii. p. 8 C; "Pro Corona," 341 C.
462 Homer, "Iliad," ix. 108, 109. They are the words of Nestor to Agamemnon.
463 See Herodotus, i. 30-32.
464 See Plato's "Symposium," p. 215 E.
465 See Plato, "Epist." iv. p. 321 B.
466 See our author, "Apophthegmata," p. 179 C.
467 Compare Horace, "Satires," i. 1. 7, 8: "Quid enim, concurritur: horæ Momento cita mors venit aut victoria læta."