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How One May Discern A Flatterer From A Friend
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[417] “Unus ex Alexandri adulatoribus: memoratus Curtio viii. 5, 6.”– Wyttenbach.
[418] A common proverb among the ancients. See “Conjugal Precepts,” Sec. xl.; Erasmus, “Adagia,” pp. 1222, 1838.
[419] A line out of AEschylus’ “Myrmidons.” Quoted again by our author, “Of Love,” Sec. V.
[420] Cleopatra.
[421] Homer, “Odyssey,” x. 329. They are the words of Circe to Odysseus. But the line was suspected even by old grammarians, and is put in brackets in modern editions of the “Odyssey.”
[422] See Lucretius, iv. 1079-1085.
[423] So Pliny, “Hist. Nat.” xxv. 95: “Remedio est (cicutae), priusquam perveniat ad vitalia, vini natura excalfactoria: sed in vino pota irremediabilis existimatur.”
[424] Assigned to Pittacus by our author, “Septem Sapientum Convivium,” Sec. ii.
[425] So Wyttenbach, who reads [Greek: enstaseis], and translates, “et libertate loquendi in nobis reprehendendis utitur, quando nos cupiditatibus morbisque animi nostri non indulgere, sed resistere, volumus.”
[426] “Phoenissae,” 469-472.
[427] Like Juvenal’s “Graeculus esuriens in caelum, jusseris, ibit.”–Juvenal, iii, 78.
[428] These are two successive lines found three times in Homer, “Iliad,” xiv. 195, 196; xviii. 426, 427; “Odyssey,” v. 89, 90. The two lines are in each case spoken by one person.
[429] Probably lines from “The Flatterer” of Menander.
[430] From the “Ino” of Euripides.
[431] From the “Erechtheus” of Euripides.
[432] We know from Athenaeus, p. 420 D, that Apelles and Arcesilaus were friends.
[433] An allusion to Hesiod, “Works and Days,” 235. Cf. Horace, “Odes,” iv. 5. 23.
[434] See the beautiful story of Baucis and Philemon, Ovid, “Metamorphoses,” viii. 626-724: “Cura pii dis sunt, et qui coluere coluntur.”
[435] Compare Terence, “Andria,” 43, 44. So too Seneca, “De Beneficiis,” ii. 10: “Haec enim beneficii inter duos lex est: alter statim oblivisci debet dati, alter accepti nunquam. Lacerat animum et premit frequens meritorum commemoratio.”
[436] A similar story about the Samians and Lacedaemonians is told by Aristotle, “Oeconom.” ii. 9.
[437] A line from Euripides, “Iphigenia in Aulis,” 407.
[438] Also in “Conjugal Precepts,” Sec. xxix.
[439] See Persius, iii. 21, 22, with Jahn’s Note.
[440] See “On Love,” Sec. xxi.
[441] “Auri plumbique oppositio fere proverbialis est. Petronius, ‘Satyricon,’ 43. Plane fortunae filius: in manu illius plumbum aureum fiebat.”– Wyttenbach. The passage about the Lydian chariot is said to be by Pindar in our author, “Nicias,” p. 523 D.
[442] Wyttenbach compares Seneca, “Epist.” cxxiii. p. 495: “Horum sermo multum nocet: nam etiamsi non statim officit, semina in animo relinquit, sequiturque nos etiam cum ab illis discesserimus, resurrecturum postea malum.”
[443] Compare Cicero, “De Amicitia,” xxvi.: “Assentatio, quamvis perniciosa sit, nocere tamen nemini potest, nisi ei, qui eam recipit atque ea delectatur. Ita fit, ut is assentatoribus patefaciat aures suas maxime, qui ipse sibi assentetur et se maxime ipse delectet.”
[444] Compare Sec. i.
[445] Compare our Author, “Quaestiones Convivalium,” viii. p. 717 F.
[446] So Horace, “Satires,” i. 2, 24: “Dum vitant stulti vitia in contraria currunt.”
[447] Homer, “Iliad,” xiv. 84, 85.
[448] Compare Cicero, “De Officiis,” i. 25: “Omnis autem animadversio et castigatio contumelia vacare debet: neque ad ejus, qui punitur aliquem aut verbis fatigat, sed ad reipublicae utilitatem referri.”
[449] “Iliad,” xi. 654.
[450] “Iliad,” xvi. 33-35.
[451] Cf. Plutarch, “Phocion,” p. 746 D.
[452] A proverb of persons on the brink of destruction. Wells among the ancients were uncovered.
[453] “Iliad,” ii. 215, of Thersites. As to Theagenes, see Seneca, “De Ira,” ii. 23.
[454] Literally, “brings a cloud over fair weather.”
[455] The MSS. have Lydian. Lysian Dionysus is also found in Pausanias, ix. 16. Lyaeus is suggested by Wyttenbach, and read by Hercher. Lysius or Lyaeus will both be connected with [Greek: luo], and so refer to Dionysus as the god that looses or frees us from care. See Horace, “Epodes,” ix. 37, 38.
[456] Compare Juvenal, iii. 73, 74: “Sermo Promptus et Isaeo torrentior.”
[457] “Orestes,” 667.
[458] Euripides, “Ion,” 732.
[459] “Anabasis,” ii. 6, 11.
[460] Perhaps by Euripides.
[461] “Olynth.” ii. p. 8 C; “Pro Corona,” 341 C.
[462] Homer, “Iliad,” ix. 108, 109. They are the words of Nestor to Agamemnon.
[463] See Herodotus, i. 30-32.
[464] See Plato’s “Symposium,” p. 215 E.
[465] See Plato, “Epist.” iv. p. 321 B.