Abundance of Friends," Sec. iii.

[146] A Delphic word for love. Can it be connected with
[Greek: arma]?

[147] Very frequent in Homer, _e.g._, "Iliad," ii. 232;
vi, 165; xiii. 636: xiv. 353, etc.

[148] See Lucretius, iv. 1105-1114. I tone down the
original here a little.

[149] Homer, "Odyssey," vi. 183, 184. Cf. Eurip.
"Medea," 14, 15.

[150] This means when the moustache and beard and
whiskers begin to grow.

[151] The whole story about Harmodius and Aristogiton
and how they killed Hipparchus is told by Thucydides,
vi. 54-59. Bion therefore practically called these
sprouting beards _tyrant-killers_, _tyrannicides_.

[152] "Scriptus igitur hic libellus est post caedem
Domitiani."--_Reiske._

[153] Vespasian certainly was not cruel generally. "Non
temere quis punitus insons reperietur, nisi absente eo
et ignaro aut certe invito atque decepto..... Sola est,
in qua merito culpetur, pecuniae cupiditas."--Suetonius,
"Divus Vespasianus," 15, 16.

CONJUGAL PRECEPTS.

PLUTARCH SENDS GREETING TO POLLIANUS AND EURYDICE.

After the customary marriage rites, by which, the Priestess of Demeter
has united you together, I think that to make an appropriate discourse,
and one that will chime in with the occasion, will be useful to you and
agreeable to the law. For in music one of the tunes played on the flute
is called Hippothorus,[154] which is a tune that excites fierce desire
in stallions to cover mares; and though in philosophy there are many
goodly subjects, yet is there none more worthy of attention than that of
marriage, on which subject philosophy spreads a charm over those who are
to pass life together, and makes them gentle and mild to one another. I
send therefore as a gift to both of you a summary of what you have often
heard, as you are both well versed in philosophy, arranging my matter in
a series of short observations that it may be the more easily
remembered, and I pray that the Muses will assist and co-operate with
Aphrodite, so that no lyre or lute could be more harmonious or in tune
than your married life, as the result of philosophy and concord. And
thus the ancients set up near Aphrodite statues of Hermes, to show that
conversation was one of the great charms of marriage, and also statues
of Peitho[155] and the Graces, to teach married people to gain their way
with one another by persuasion, and not b