ad," vi. 155 sq.

[623] Or self-control.

[624] Literally, some woman _shut up_, or _enclosed_.

[625] See also our author's "On those who are punished
by the Deity late," Sec. xi.

[626] See Euripides, Fragm., 389. Also Plutarch's
"Theseus," cap. xv.

[627] Plutarch rather reminds one, in his evident
contempt for _Epitaphs_, of the cynic who asked, "Where
are all the bad people buried?" Where indeed?

[628] Sophocles, "Electra," 724, 725.

[629] _euphrone_, a stock phrase for night, is here
defined.

[630] "Historia exstat initio libri quinti
Cyropaediae."--_Reiske._

[631] Literally, "slippery and prone to." For the
metaphor of "slippery" compare Horace, "Odes," i. 19-8,
"Et vultus nimium lubricus adspici."

[632] This and the line above are in Sophocles, "Oedipus
Tyrannus," 1169, 1170.

[633] Euripides, "Orestes," 213.

[634] Literally, _ears_.

[635] The paronomasia is as follows. The word for
impious people is supposed to mean _listeners to mills
grinding_.

ON SHYNESS.[636]

Sec. I. Some of the things that grow on the earth are in their nature wild
and barren and injurious to the growth of seeds and plants, yet those
who till the ground consider them indications not of a bad soil but of a
rich and fat one;[637] so also there are passions of the soul that are
not good, yet are as it were offshoots of a good disposition, and one
likely to improve with good advice. Among these I class shyness, no bad
sign in itself, though it affords occasion to vice. For the modest
oftentimes plunge into the same excesses as the shameless, but then they
are pained and grieved at them, and not pleased like the others. For the
shameless person is quite apathetic at what is disgraceful, while the
modest person is easily affected even at the very appearance of it.
Shyness is in fact an excess of modesty. And thus it is called
shamefacedness, because the face exhibits the changes of the mind. For
as dejection is defined to be the grief that makes people look on the
ground, so shamefacedness is that shyness that cannot look people in the
face. And so the orator said the shameless person had not pupils[638] in
his eyes but harlots. The bashful person on the other hand shows his
delicacy and effeminacy of soul in his countenance, and palliates his
weakness, which exposes him to defeat at the hands of the impudent, by