Part 40

See Pausanias, i. 23. Leaena means "lioness." On the conspiracy see Thucydides, vi. 54-59.

Homer, "Odyssey," xix. 494. Plutarch quotes from memory. The nurse's name was Euryclea.

Odyssey," xix. 210-212. Quoted again "On Moral Virtue," Sec. iv.

Literally bark. See "Odyssey," xx. 13, 16.

"Odyssey," xx. 23.

See "Odyssey," ix. [Greek: Kyklopeia].

Euripides, "Ino." Fragment, 416.

"Significat Q. Caecilium Metellum, de quo Liv. xl. 45, 46."--Reiske.

Euripides, "Ino." Fragm. 415. Compare St. James, iii. 5, 6.

Fabius Maximus. So Tacitus, "Annals," i. 5, who relates this story somewhat differently.

See Tacitus, "Annals," i. 3. As to his fate, see "Annals," i. 6.

Tiberius Nero, who actually did succeed Augustus.

The Emperor's wife.

So it is in Sec. xii. But perhaps here it means, "I wish you had more sense, Fabius!"

Adopting the reading of Reiske.

Reading [Greek: phorutou] or [Greek: phoryton], as Wyttenbach.

Reading [Greek: katechein dynantai] with Reiske.

See Sophocles, Fragm. 162.

Homer, "Iliad," x. 457.

Compare "Moralia," p. 177 A; Horace, "Satires," i. 7. 3: "Omnibus et lippis notum et tonsoribus."

Homer, "Iliad," xxii. 207.

Sophocles, "Antigone," 317-319.

See Pausanias, iii. 17; iv. 15; x. 5.

Compare the idea of the people of Melita, Acts xxviii. 4.

An Allusion to Dolon in Homer, "Iliad," x., 374, sq. according to Xylander.

Quoted again by our author in his "Publicola," p. 105 B., and assigned to Epicharmus.

So Shakspere has taught us, "Brevity is the soul of wit."--Hamlet, Act ii Sc. 2.

"In Protagora."--Xylander.