Part 31

This was Ptolemy Auletes, as the former was Ptolemy Philopator.

See Suetonius, "Nero," ch. 21.

"Plerumque minuta voce cantillare."--Wyttenbach. What Milton would have called "a lean and flashy song."

Naso suspendit adunco, as Horace, "Sat." i. 6. 5.

See Athenaeus, p. 434 C.

As Gnatho in Terence, "Eunuch." 496-498.

Reading [Greek: Helon], as Courier, Hercher.

"Iliad," x. 249. They are words of Odysseus.

This was carrying flattery rather far. "Mithridatis medicinae scientia multis memorata veterum."--Wyttenbach.

Euripides, "Alcestis," 1159.

Our author gives this definition to Simonides, "De Gloria Atheniensium," Sec. iii.

So our author again, "On Contentedness of Mind," Sec. xii.

See Herodotus, i. 30, 33; Juvenal, x. 274, 275; and Pausanias, ii. 20.

"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.

See also "On Contentedness of Mind," Sec. xii.

Homer, "Iliad," xvi. 141. See the context also from 130 sq.

Our author has used this illustration again in "Phocion," p. 742 B.

Namely in Sec. xxvii. where [Greek: parrhesia] is discussed.

Contrary to the severe training he ought to undergo, well expressed by Horace, "De Arte Poetica," 412-414.

Reading with Hercher [Greek: apotympanizontos kai streblountos]. This was Ptolemy Physcon.

"Unus ex Alexandri adulatoribus: memoratus Curtio viii. 5, 6."--Wyttenbach.

A common proverb among the ancients. See "Conjugal Precepts," Sec. xl.; Erasmus, "Adagia," pp. 1222, 1838.

A line out of AEschylus' "Myrmidons." Quoted again by our author, "Of Love," Sec. V.

Cleopatra.

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."

See Lucretius, iv. 1079-1085.

So Pliny, "Hist. Nat." xxv. 95: "Remedio est (cicutae), priusquam perveniat ad vitalia, vini natura excalfactoria: sed in vino pota irremediabilis existimatur."

Assigned to Pittacus by our author, "Septem Sapientum Convivium," Sec. ii.