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Demosthenes, "De Falsa Legatione," p. 406.

Euripides, "Orestes," 251.

A line from Euripides. Quoted also "De Adulatore et Amico," Sec. xxxii.

Compare "De Audiendo," Sec.vi. See also Horace, "Satires," i, 4. 136, 137.

The story is somewhat differently told, "Quaest. Conviv.," Lib. ii. Sec. ix.

From a lost play of Euripides.

In some lost play. Compare Hesiod, "Works and Days," 719-721; Terence, "Andria," 920.

The sentiment is assigned to Diogenes twice elsewhere by our author, namely, "How One may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," Sec. xi., and "How One may discern a Flatterer from a Friend," Sec. xxxvi.

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.

"Jason Pheraeus cognomine Prometheus dictus est. Vide Ciceronem, 'Nat. Deor.' iii. 29; Plinium, vii. 51; Valerium Maximum, i. 8, Extem. 6."--Wytttenbach.

She was a Vestal Virgin. See Livy, iv. 44.

See Thucydides, i. 135, 136.

From a lost play of Euripides. Compare the proverb, [Greek: pathemata mathemata].

"Laws," v. p. 731 E.

Told again "Reg. et Imperator. Apophthegm.," p. 175 B.

A favourite image of Homer, employed "Iliad," iv. 350; xiv. 83; "Odyssey," i. 64; xxiii. 70.

"Laws," xi. p. 935 A. Quoted again "On Talkativeness," Sec. vii.

See Pausanias, v. 14.

From a Fragment of Pindar.

See Suetonius, "Divus Julius," 75: "Sed et statuas L. Sullae atque Pompeii a plebe disjectas reposuit."

Compare our author, "Quaestiones Convivalium," viii. p. 729 E.

No doubt in the interest of the defendant. See our author, "Cato Minor," p. 769 B.

A Greek proverb, see Erasmus, "Adagia," p. 921.

So Cicero, "Nat. Deor." ii. 56: "In aedibus architecti avertunt ab oculis naribusque dominorum ea quae profluentia necessario taetri essent aliquid habitura."

"Works and Days," 23-26. Our "Two of a trade seldom agree."

Compare "How One may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," Sec. xiv.

For as the English proverb says, "Hatred is blind as well as love."

"Laws," v. p. 728 A.

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