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or he had been punished sufficiently for his crimes, and now deserved some favour at the hands of the gods, for he had freed Greece, the noblest nation of his subjects and the best-beloved of the gods.[878] So much did Thespesius behold, but as he intended to return a horrible dread came upon him. For a woman, marvellous in appearance and size, took hold of him and said to him, "Come here that you may the better remember everything you have seen." And she was about to strike him with a red-hot iron pin, such as the encaustic painters use,[879] when another woman prevented her; and he was suddenly sucked up, as through[880] a pipe, by a strong and violent wind, and lit upon his own body, and woke up and found that he was close to his tomb. [806] In the temple at Delphi, the scene of the discussion, as we see later on, Sec.Sec. vii. xii. [807] Reading [Greek: edokei] with Reiske. [808] Euripides, "Orestes," 420. Cf. "Ion," 1615. [809] Thucydides, iii. 38. [810] See the circumstances in Pausanias, iv. 17 and 22. [811] Compare Petronius, "Satyricon," 44: "Dii pedes lanatos habent." Compare also "Tibullus," i. 9. 4: "Sera tamen tacitis Poena venit pedibus." [812] Reading [Greek: maliota] (for [Greek: molis]) with Wyttenbach. [813] An allusion to the proverb [Greek: Opse Theou aleousi myloi, aleousi de lepta]. See Erasmus, "Adagia," p. 1864. [814] Cf. Plato, "Republic," 472 A. [815] See Note, "On Abundance of Friends," Sec. ii. [816] Reading [Greek: ei gar]. [817] Or _a world_. [818] See above, Sec. ii. [819] Quoted also in "On restraining Anger," Sec. ii. [820] It seems necessary to read either [Greek: porizein] with Mez, or [Greek: horizein] with Wyttenbach. [821] Compare Aristophanes, "Vespae," 438. [822] See Pausanias, viii. 27. [823] Pindar. [824] Homer, "Iliad," xv. 641, 642. [825] See Thucydides, i. 127. [826] See Pausanias, v. 17; viii. 24; ix. 41; x. 29. [827] Hesiod, "Works and Days," 266. [828] Ibid. 265. Compare Pausanias, ii. 9; Ovid, A. A. i. 655, 656. [829] "Significat martyres Christianos, in tunica molesta fumantes."--_Reiske._ [830] Like the sword of Damocles. See Horace, "Odes," iii. 1. 17, 21. [831] See also Pausanias, iii. 17. [832] Surely [Greek: an anatrepoi] must be read. [833] Comp
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