lso never brings pain or sorrow.

[541] Or _Garrulity_, _Chattering_, _Prating_. It is
Talkativeness in a bad sense.

[542] Or _Heptaphonos_. See Pausanias, v. 21.

[543] Some unknown poet's words. I suppose they mean
driving one mad, making one "Like sweet bells jangled,
out of tune and harsh."

[544] So our English proverb, "Empty vessels make the
greatest sound."

[545] Literally in a semi-circular place. It is not
quite clear whether the front seats of the theatre are
meant, or, as I have taken it, more generally, of some
public place for entertainment or meeting, some
promenade or piazza.

[546] Reading [Greek: akouein], which seems far the best
reading.

[547] Homer, "Iliad," v. 226; "Odyssey," vi. 81.

[548] "Bacchae," 385-387.

[549] See Ovid, "Tristia," iv. 4, 55-58.

[550] For example, Horace, "Epistles," i. 2, 62: "Ira
furor brevis est" I read [Greek: homotoichos] with Mez.

[551] Homer, "Odyssey," xiv. 463-465.

[552] Ibid. 466.

[553] Compare the German proverb, "Thought when sober,
said when drunk"--"Nuchtern gedacht, voll gesagt."

[554] Cf. Quintilian, x. 1, 78: "His aetate Lysias major,
subtilis atque elegans et quo nihil, si oratori satis
est docere, quaeras perfectius. Nihil enim est inane,
nihil arcessitum; puro tamen fonti quam magno flumini
propior." Cf. ix. 4, 17.

[555] Somewhat like Pindar, "Pyth." i. 1. 1, 2.

[556] "Odyssey," xii. 452, 453.

[557] See Cicero, "Ad Fam." vii. 18; Catullus, xxii. 5,
6.

[558] See "Iliad," xiv. 214-217.

[559] "Allusio ad Homericum [Greek: epei ponos allos
epeigei.]"--_Xylander._

[560] "Laws," xi. p. 935 A.

[561] So true are the words of AEschylus, [Greek: glosse
mataia zemia prostribetai].--"Prom." 329.

[562] Our "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

[563] "Non Citticus, sed Eleates. v. Cic. Tuscul. ii.
22, et Nat. Deor. 3, 33."--_Reiske._

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

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

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

[567] Literally _bark_. See "Odyssey," xx. 13, 16.

[568] "Odyssey," xx. 23.

[569] See "Odyssey," ix. [Greek