HOW A MAN MAY BE BENEFITED BY HIS ENEMIES.
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Plutarch and Shilleto, A. R. (Arthur Richard)
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506 Homer, "Iliad," i. 255.
507 Literally "the artists of Dionysus." We know what they were from our author's "Quæstiones Romanæ," § 107: διὰ τί τοὺς περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον τεχνίτας ἱστρίωνας ῾Ρωμαῖοι καλοῦσιν;
508 Compare "De Audiendis Poetis," § iv.
509 Æschylus, "Septem contra Thebas," 593, 594.
510 Pindar, "Fragm." 253.
511 Demosthenes, "De Falsa Legatione," p. 406.
512 Euripides, "Orestes," 251.
513 A line from Euripides. Quoted also "De Adulatore et Amico," § xxxii.
514 Compare "De Audiendo," §vi. See also Horace, "Satires," i, 4. 136, 137.
515 The story is somewhat differently told, "Quæst. Conviv.," Lib. ii. § ix.
516 From a lost play of Euripides.
517 In some lost play. Compare Hesiod, "Works and Days," 719-721; Terence, "Andria," 920.
518 The sentiment is assigned to Diogenes twice elsewhere by our author, namely, "How One may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," § xi., and "How One may discern a Flatterer from a Friend," § xxxvi.
519 See Propertius, ii. 1. 63, 64; Ovid, "Metamorphoses," xii. 112; xiii. 171; "Tristia," v. 2. 15, 16; "Remedia Amoris," 47, 48; Erasmus, "Adagia," p. 221.
520 "Jason Pheræus cognomine Prometheus dictus est. Vide Ciceronem, 'Nat. Deor.' iii. 29; Plinium, vii. 51; Valerium Maximum, i. 8, Extem. 6."—Wytttenbach.
521 She was a Vestal Virgin. See Livy, iv. 44.
522 See Thucydides, i. 135, 136.
523 From a lost play of Euripides. Compare the proverb, παθήματα μαθήματα.
524 "Laws," v. p. 731 E.
525 Told again "Reg. et Imperator. Apophthegm.," p. 175 B.
526 A favourite image of Homer, employed "Iliad," iv. 350; xiv. 83; "Odyssey," i. 64; xxiii. 70.
527 "Laws," xi. p. 935 A. Quoted again "On Talkativeness," § vii.
528 See Pausanias, v. 14.
529 From a Fragment of Pindar.
530 See Suetonius, "Divus Julius," 75: "Sed et statuas L. Sullæ atque Pompeii a plebe disjectas reposuit."
531 Compare our author, "Quaestiones Convivalium," viii. p. 729 E.
532 No doubt in the interest of the defendant. See our author, "Cato Minor," p. 769 B.
533 A Greek proverb, see Erasmus, "Adagia," p. 921.
534 So Cicero, "Nat. Deor." ii. 56: "In ædibus architecti avertunt ab oculis naribusque dominorum ea quæ profluentia necessario tætri essent aliquid habitura."
535 "Works and Days," 23-26. Our "Two of a trade seldom agree."
536 Compare "How One may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," § xiv.
537 For as the English proverb says, "Hatred is blind as well as love."
538 "Laws," v. p. 728 A.
539 Quoted more fully "How One may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," § vi.
540 "Laws," v. p. 731 E. See also above, § vii.