ave
the suffering part to pain and smart, but bathe and foment it; so those
who do their rebuking daintily run[496] off after paining and smarting,
and by different dealing and kind words soothe and mollify them, as
statuaries smooth and polish images which have been broken or chipped.
But he that is broken and wounded by rebuke, if he is left sullen and
swelling with rage and off his equilibrium, is henceforth hard to win
back or talk over. And so people who reprove ought to be especially
careful on this point, and not to leave them too soon, nor break off
their conversation and intercourse with their acquaintances at the
exasperating and painful stage.

[348] Plato, "Laws," v. p. 731 D, E.

[349] "Laws," v. p. 730 C.

[350] Inscribed in the vestibule of the temple of Apollo
at Delphi. See Pausanias, x. 24.

[351] Used here apparently proverbially for poverty or
low position in life.

[352] Wyttenbach well compares Cicero, "De Amicitia,"
xviii.: "Accedat huc suavitas quaedam oportet sermonum
atque morum, haudquaquam mediocre condimentum amicitiae.
Tristitia autem et in omni re severitas, habet illa
quidem gravitatem: sed amicitia remissior esse debet, et
liberior, et dulcior, et ad omnem comitatem
facilitatemque proclivior."

[353] Hesiod, "Theogony," 64.

[354] Euripides, "Ion," 732.

[355] Our author assigns this saying to Prodicus, "De
Sanitate Praecepta," Sec. viii. But to Evenus, "Quaest.
Conviv." Lib. vii. Prooemium, and "Platonicae
Quaestiones," x. Sec. iii.

[356] As was usual. See Homer, "Odyssey," i. 146. Cf.
Plautus, "Persa," v. iii. 16: "Hoc age, accumbe: hunc
diem suavem meum natalem agitemus amoenum: date aquam
manibus: apponite mensam."

[357] From a play of Eupolis called "The Flatterers."
Cf. Terence, "Eunuchus," 489-491.

[358] See Athenaeus, 256 D. Compare also Valerius Maximus,
ix. 1.

[359] "Videatur Casaubonus ad Athenaeum, vi. p. 243
A."--_Wyttenbach._

[360] "Republic," p. 361 A.

[361] See Herodotus, iii. 78.

[362] See Erasmus, "Adagia," p. 1883.

[363] "Proverbium etiam a Cicerone laudatum 'De
Amicitia,' cap. vi.: Itaque non aqua, non igne, ut
aiunt, pluribus locis utimur, quam amicitia. Notavit
etiam Erasmus 'Adag.' p. 112."--_Wyttenbach._

[364] Compare Sallust, "De Catilinae Conjuratione," cap.
xx.: "Nam idem vel