HOW ONE CAN PRAISE ONESELF WITHOUT EXCITING ENVY.
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Plutarch and Shilleto, A. R. (Arthur Richard)
Source notes
775 Homer, "Iliad," iv. 370, 371.
776 Diomede.
777 Sophocles, "Trachiniæ," 442.
778 Homer, "Iliad," xvi. 847, 848. Plutarch only quotes the first line. I have added the second for the English reader, as necessary for the sense.
779 Homer, "Iliad," i. 128, 129.
780 "Iliad," ix. 328.
781 "Iliad," xvi. 70, 71.
782 So Wyttenbach.
783 Demosthenes, "De Corona," p. 260.
784 "De Corona," p. 307.
785 After Wyttenbach.
786 After Wyttenbach.
787 That is, laughing-stock. A play on the word Gelon.
788 Homer, "Iliad," xxii. 379. He speaks of Hector.
789 Others take it "as fortune's favourite."
790 Words of Demosthenes, "De Corona," p. 325. Plutarch condenses them.
791 Homer, "Odyssey," xvi. 187.
792 Titles of the Ptolemies, Philadelphus Philometor, Euergetes.
793 Homer, "Iliad," xxiii. 673.
794 Ibid. 670.
795 Homer, "Odyssey," xii. 192-194.
796 Ibid. ix. 228, 229.
797 Fragments from the "Philoctetes" of Euripides.
798 Homer, "Iliad," i. 260, 261.
799 Homer, "Iliad," vi. 127.
800 Homer, "Odyssey," xii. 209-212.
801 An allusion to Homer, "Iliad," xix. 302.
802 Adopting the reading of Dübner.
803 Adopting the reading of Salmasius.
804Nouveaux riches, novi homines.
805 Demosthenes, "De Corona," p. 270.