such tiresome fellows.

[650] [Greek: epitribo] is used in the same sense by
Demosthenes, p. 288.

[651] On such social pests see Juvenal, i. 1-14.

[652] See Pausanias, i. 2. Euripides left Athens about
409 B.C., and took up his abode for good in Macedonia at
the court of Archelaus, where he died 406 B.C.

[653] For a drachma was only worth 6 obols, or 93/4_d._ of
our money, nearly = Roman denarius.

[654] A talent was 6,000 drachmae, or 36,000 obols, about
L243 15_s._ of our money.

[655] "Olynth." iii. p. 33, Sec. 19.

[656] Compare "On Education," Sec. vii.

[657] Our "Out of the frying-pan into the fire." Cf.
"Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim."

[658] By their having to borrow themselves.

[659] Fragm. 947.

[660] Or apophthegms, of which Plutarch and Lord Verulam
have both left us collections.

[661] Thucydides, ii. 40. Pericles is the speaker.

[662] A slightly-changed line from Euripides'
"Pirithous," Fragm. 591. Quoted correctly "On Abundance
of Friends," Sec. vii.

[663] "Zenonis discipulus."--_Reiske._

[664] "Works and Days," 371.

[665] Cf. Shakspere, "Hamlet," i. iii. 76.

[666] Euripides, "Medea," 1078.

[667] Our "Set a thief to catch a thief."

[668] Or strigil. See Otto Jahn's note on Persius, v.
126.

[669] "Forsitan illa quam nominat Pausanias, i.
27."--_Reiske._

[670] Literally "want of tune in." We cannot well keep
up the metaphor. Compare with this passage, "That virtue
may be taught," Sec. ii.

[671] Literally "crowns."

[672] Thucydides, ii. 64. Pericles is the speaker.
Quoted again in "How one may discern a flatterer from a
friend," Sec. XXXV.

[673] "Est Bio Borysthenita, de quo vide Diog.
Laert."--_Reiske._

[674] "De Alexino Eleo vide Diog. Laert., ii. 109.
Nostri p. 1063, 3."--_Reiske._

[675] Antisthenes wrote a book called "Hercules." See
Diogenes Laertius, vi. 16.

ON RESTRAINING ANGER.

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN SYLLA AND FUNDANUS.

Sec. I. _Sylla._ Those painters, Fundanus, seem to me to do well who,
before giving the finishing touches to their paintings, lay them by for
a time and then revise them; because by taking their eyes off them for a
time they gain by frequent inspection a new insight, and are more apt to
detect minute differences, that continu