HOW A MAN MAY BE BENEFITED BY HIS ENEMIES.
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Plutarch and Shilleto, A. R. (Arthur Richard)
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348 Plato, "Laws," v. p. 731 D, E.
349 "Laws," v. p. 730 C.
350 Inscribed in the vestibule of the temple of Apollo at Delphi. See Pausanias, x. 24.
351 Used here apparently proverbially for poverty or low position in life.
352 Wyttenbach well compares Cicero, "De Amicitia," xviii.: "Accedat huc suavitas quædam oportet sermonum atque morum, haudquaquam mediocre condimentum amicitiæ. Tristitia autem et in omni re severitas, habet illa quidem gravitatem: sed amicitia remissior esse debet, et liberior, et dulcior, et ad omnem comitatem facilitatemque proclivior."
353 Hesiod, "Theogony," 64.
354 Euripides, "Ion," 732.
355 Our author assigns this saying to Prodicus, "De Sanitate Præcepta," § viii. But to Evenus, "Quæst. Conviv." Lib. vii. Proœmium, and "Platonicæ Quæstiones," x. § iii.
356 As was usual. See Homer, "Odyssey," i. 146. Cf. Plautus, "Persa," v. iii. 16: "Hoc age, accumbe: hunc diem suavem meum natalem agitemus amœnum: date aquam manibus: apponite mensam."
357 From a play of Eupolis called "The Flatterers." Cf. Terence, "Eunuchus," 489-491.
358 See Athenæus, 256 D. Compare also Valerius Maximus, ix. 1.
359 "Videatur Casaubonus ad Athenæum, vi. p. 243 A."—Wyttenbach.
360 "Republic," p. 361 A.
361 See Herodotus, iii. 78.
362 See Erasmus, "Adagia," p. 1883.
363 "Proverbium etiam a Cicerone laudatum 'De Amicitia,' cap. vi.: Itaque non aqua, non igne, ut aiunt, pluribus locis utimur, quam amicitia. Notavit etiam Erasmus 'Adag.' p. 112."—Wyttenbach.
364 Compare Sallust, "De Catilinæ Conjuratione," cap. xx.: "Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est."
365 "Proverbiale, quo utitur Plutarchus in Alcibiade, p. 203 D. Iambus Tragici esse videtur, ad Neoptolemum dictus."—Wyttenbach.
366 As the polypus, or chameleon.
367 Plato, "Phædrus," p. 239 D.
368 Wyttenbach compares Juvenal, iii. 100-108.
369 See my note "On Abundance of Friends," § ix. Wyttenbach well points out the felicity of the expression here, "siquidem parasitus est άοικος καὶ ἀνέστιος."
370 Euripides, "Hippolytus," 219, 218. Cf. Ovid, "Heroides," iv. 41, 42.
371 Compare "How one may be aware of one's progress in virtue," § x. Cf. also Horace, "Satires," ii. iii. 35; Quintilian, xi. 1.
372 "Odyssey," xxii. 1.
373 The demagogue is a kind of flatterer. See Aristotle, "Pol." iv. 4.
374 Cf. Aristophanes, "Acharnians," 153, ὅπερ μαχιμώτατον θρᾳκῶν ἔθνος.
375 Plato was somewhat of a traveller, he three times visited Syracuse, and also travelled in Egypt.
376 As to the polypus, see "On Abundance of Friends," § ix.
377 As "Fumum et opes strepitumque Romæ."—Horace, "Odes," iii. 29. 12.
378 Homer, "Odyssey," xvi. 181.
379 Sophocles, "Antigone," 523.
380 As to these traits in Plato and Aristotle, compare "De Audiendis Poetis," § viii. And as to Alexander, Plutarch tells us in his Life that he used to hold his head a little to the left, "Life," p. 666 B. See also "De Alexandri Fortuna aut Virtute," § ii.
381 "De Chamæleonte Aristoteles 'Hist. Animal.' i. 11; 'Part. Animal.' iv. 11; Theophrastus Eclog. ap. Photium edit. Aristot. Sylburg. T. viii. p. 329: μεταβάλλει δὲ ὁ χαμαιλέων εἰς πάντα τὰ χρώματα· πλὴν τὴν εἰς τὸ λευκὸν και τὸ ἐρυθρὸν οὐ δέχεται μεταβολήν. Similiter Plinius 'Hist. Nat.' viii. 51."—Wyttenbach.
382 See Athenæus, 249 F; 435 E.
383 Cf. Juv. iii. 113; "Scire volunt secreta domus, atque inde timeri."
384 Cf. Menander apud Stob. p. 437: Τὰ δεύτερ᾽ αἰεὶ τὴν γυναῖκα δεὶ λέγειν, Τὴν δ᾽ ἡγεμονιαν τῶν ὅλων τὸν ἄνδρ᾽ ἔχειν.
385 As Lord Stowell used to say that "dinners lubricated business."
386 Homer, "Iliad," xi. 643.
387 Homer, "Odyssey," iv. 178, 179.