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How One May Discern A Flatterer From A Friend
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[366] As the polypus, or chameleon.
[367] Plato, “Phaedrus,” p. 239 D.
[368] Wyttenbach compares Juvenal, iii. 100-108.
[369] See my note “On Abundance of Friends,” Sec. ix. Wyttenbach well points out the felicity of the expression here, “siquidem parasitus est [Greek: aoikos kai anestios].”
[370] Euripides, “Hippolytus,” 219, 218. Cf. Ovid, “Heroides,” iv. 41, 42.
[371] Compare “How one may be aware of one’s progress in virtue,” Sec. 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, [Greek: hoper machimotaton thrakon ethnos].
[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,” Sec. ix.
[377] As “Fumum et opes strepitumque Romae.”–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,” Sec. 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,” Sec. ii.
[381] “De Chamaeleonte Aristoteles ‘Hist. Animal.’ i. 11; ‘Part. Animal.’ iv. 11; Theophrastus Eclog. ap. Photium edit. Aristot. Sylburg. T. viii. p. 329: [Greek: metaballei de ho chamaileon eis panta ta chromata; plen ten eis to leukon kai to eruthron ou dechetai metabolen.] Similiter Plinius ‘Hist. Nat.’ viii. 51.”– Wyttenbach.
[382] See Athenaeus, 249 F; 435 E.
[383] Cf. Juv. iii. 113; “Scire volunt secreta domus, atque inde timeri.”
[384] Cf. Menander apud Stob. p. 437: [Greek: Ta deuter aiei ten gynaika dei legein, Ten d’ egemonian ton olon ton andr’ echein].
[385] As Lord Stowell used to say that “dinners lubricated business.”
[386] Homer, “Iliad,” xi. 643.
[387] Homer, “Odyssey,” iv. 178, 179.
[388] Perhaps the poley-germander. See Pliny, “Nat. Hist,” xxi. 84. The line is from Nicander Theriac. 64.
[389] “Iliad,” viii. 281, 282.
[390] “Iliad,” x. 243.
[391] “Iliad,” vii. 109, 110.
[392] Xenophon, “Agesilaus,” xi. 5. p. 673 C.
[393] To filch the grain from the bin or granary would not of course be so important a theft as to steal the seed-stock preserved for sowing. So probably Cato, “De Re Rustica,” v. Sec. iv.: “Segetem ne defrudet,” sc. villicus.
[394] Thucydides, iii. 82.
[395] Plato, “Republic,” v. p. 474 E. Compare also Lucretius, iv. 1160-1170; Horace, “Satires,” i. 3. 38 sq.
[396] This Ptolemy was a votary of Cybele, and a spiritual ancestor of General Booth. The worship of Cybele is well described by Lucretius, ii. 598-643.
[397] This was Ptolemy Auletes, as the former was Ptolemy Philopator.
[398] See Suetonius, “Nero,” ch. 21.
[399] “Plerumque minuta voce cantillare.”– Wyttenbach. What Milton would have called “a lean and flashy song.”
[400] Naso suspendit adunco, as Horace, “Sat.” i. 6. 5.
[401] See Athenaeus, p. 434 C.
[402] As Gnatho in Terence, “Eunuch.” 496-498.
[403] Reading [Greek: Helon], as Courier, Hercher.
[404] “Iliad,” x. 249. They are words of Odysseus.
[405] This was carrying flattery rather far. “Mithridatis medicinae scientia multis memorata veterum.”– Wyttenbach.
[406] Euripides, “Alcestis,” 1159.
[407] Our author gives this definition to Simonides, “De Gloria Atheniensium,” Sec. iii.
[408] So our author again, “On Contentedness of Mind,” Sec. xii.
[409] See Herodotus, i. 30, 33; Juvenal, x. 274, 275; and Pausanias, ii. 20.
[410] “Nobile Stoae Paradoxum. Cicero Fin. iii. 22, ex persona Catonis. Horatius ridet Epistol. i. 1. 106-108. Ad summam sapiens uno minor est Jove: dives, Liber, honoratus, pulcher, rex denique regum; Praecipue sanus, nisi quum pituita molesta est.”– Wyttenbach.
[411] See also “On Contentedness of Mind,” Sec. xii.
[412] Homer, “Iliad,” xvi. 141. See the context also from 130 sq.
[413] Our author has used this illustration again in “Phocion,” p. 742 B.
[414] Namely in Sec. xxvii. where [Greek: parrhesia] is discussed.
[415] Contrary to the severe training he ought to undergo, well expressed by Horace, “De Arte Poetica,” 412-414.
[416] Reading with Hercher [Greek: apotympanizontos kai streblountos]. This was Ptolemy Physcon.