perhaps a visionary scheme; but
to attain to many, though it would need a happy disposition and much
care, is a thing possible to human nature.[43]

[3] Euripides, "Here. Fur." 1261, 1262.

[4] Euripides, "Hippol." 424, 425.

[5] Cleophantus is the name given to this lad by other
writers.

[6] Compare Sophocles, "Oedipus Tyrannus," 112, 113.

[7] The Thessalians were very pugnacious. Cf. Isocrates,
"Oratio de Pace," p. 316. [Greek: ohi men (Thettaloi)
sphisin autois haei polemousin].

[8] A proverbial expression among the ancients for
earliest childhood. See Erasmus, "Adagia."

[9] Plato, "Republic," ii. p. 429, E.

[10] See Erasmus, "Adagia."

[11] It is difficult to know how to render the word
[Greek: paidagogos] in English. He was the slave who
took the boy to school, and generally looked after him
from his seventh year upward. Tutor or governor seems
the best rendering. He had great power over the boy
entrusted to him.

[12] Plato, "Clitophon," p. 255, D.

[13] Compare Diogenes Laertius, ii. 72.

[14] Reading [Greek: koitophthorountes], the excellent
emendation of Wyttenbach.

[15] From the heathen standpoint of course, not from the
Christian. Compare the advice of Cato in Horace's
"Satires," Book i. Sat. ii. 31-35. It is a little
difficult to know what Diogenes' precept really means.
Is it that vice is universal? Like Shakespeare's
"Measure for Measure," Act ii. Sc. ii. 5. "All sects,
all ages smack of this vice."

[16] He was asked by Polus, see Plato, "Gorgias," p.
290, F.

[17] "Hippolytus," 986-989.

[18] Cf. Plato, "Cratylus," p. 257, E. [Greek: o pai
Hipponikou Hermogenes, palaia paroimia, oti chalepa ta
kala estin ope echei mathein]. So Horace, "Sat." i. ix.
59, 60, "Nil sine magno Vita labore dedit mortalibus."

[19] "Midias," p. 411, C.

[20] _i.e._, occasionally and sparingly.

[21] Diogenes Laertius assigns the remark to Aristippus,
while Stobaeus fathers it on Aristo.

[22] A favourite thought with the ancients. Compare
Isocrates, "Admonitio ad Demonicum," p. 18; and
Aristotle, "Nic. Eth.," iv. 3.

[23] "Republic," vii. p. 489, E.

[24] A famous Proverb. It is "the master's eye"
generally, as in Xenophon, "Oeconom." xii. 20; and
Aristotle, "Oeconom." i. 6.

[25] "Works and Days,"