ON CURIOSITY.608
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Plutarch and Shilleto, A. R. (Arthur Richard)
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545 Literally in a semi-circular place. It is not quite clear whether the front seats of the theatre are meant, or, as I have taken it, more generally, of some public place for entertainment or meeting, some promenade or piazza.
546 Reading ἀκοὔειν, which seems far the best reading.
547 Homer, "Iliad," v. 226; "Odyssey," vi. 81.
548 "Bacchæ," 385-387.
549 See Ovid, "Tristia," iv. 4, 55-58.
550 For example, Horace, "Epistles," i. 2, 62: "Ira furor brevis est" I read ὁμότοιχος with Mez.
551 Homer, "Odyssey," xiv. 463-465.
552 Ibid. 466.
553 Compare the German proverb, "Thought when sober, said when drunk"—"Nuchtern gedacht, voll gesagt."
554 Cf. Quintilian, x. 1, 78: "His ætate Lysias major, subtilis atque elegans et quo nihil, si oratori satis est docere, quæras perfectius. Nihil enim est inane, nihil arcessitum; puro tamen fonti quam magno flumini propior." Cf. ix. 4, 17.
555 Somewhat like Pindar, "Pyth." i. 1. 1, 2.
556 "Odyssey," xii. 452, 453.
557 See Cicero, "Ad Fam." vii. 18; Catullus, xxii. 5, 6.
558 See "Iliad," xiv. 214-217.
559 "Allusio ad Homericum ἐπεἱ πόνος ἄλλος ἐπείγει."—Xylander.
560 "Laws," xi. p. 935 A.
561 So true are the words of Æschylus, γλώσσῃ ματαίᾳ ζημία προστρίβεται.—"Prom." 329.
562 Our "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
563 "Non Citticus, sed Eleates. v. Cic. Tuscul. ii. 22, et Nat. Deor. 3, 33."—Reiske.
564 See Pausanias, i. 23. Leæna means "lioness." On the conspiracy see Thucydides, vi. 54-59.
565 Homer, "Odyssey," xix. 494. Plutarch quotes from memory. The nurse's name was Euryclea.
566 Odyssey," xix. 210-212. Quoted again "On Moral Virtue," § iv.
567 Literally bark. See "Odyssey," xx. 13, 16.
568 "Odyssey," xx. 23.
569 See "Odyssey," ix. Κυκλώπεια.
570 Euripides, "Ino." Fragment, 416.
571 "Significat Q. Cæcilium Metellum, de quo Liv. xl. 45, 46."—Reiske.
572 Euripides, "Ino." Fragm. 415. Compare St. James, iii. 5, 6.
573 Fabius Maximus. So Tacitus, "Annals," i. 5, who relates this story somewhat differently.
574 See Tacitus, "Annals," i. 3. As to his fate, see "Annals," i. 6.
575 Tiberius Nero, who actually did succeed Augustus.
576 The Emperor's wife.
577 So it is in § xii. But perhaps here it means, "I wish you had more sense, Fabius!"
578 Adopting the reading of Reiske.
579 Reading φορυτοῦ or φορυτῶν, as Wyttenbach.
580 Reading κατέχειν δύνανται with Reiske.
581 See Sophocles, Fragm. 162.
582 Homer, "Iliad," x. 457.
583 Compare "Moralia," p. 177 A; Horace, "Satires," i. 7. 3: "Omnibus et lippis notum et tonsoribus."
584 Homer, "Iliad," xxii. 207.