FOOTNOTES:
[76] This proverb means to play fast and loose, to be a turn-coat, a Vicar of Bray. The best illustration is Cicero ad Fam. vii. 29. “Noli hanc epistolam Attico ostendere: sine eum errare et putare me virum bonum esse nec solere duo parietes de eadem fidelia dealbare.” See also Erasmus’ Adagia.
[77] The passage referred to is Iliad, vi. 407.
[78] See Book v., ch. 9.
[79] Thucyd. iii. 101.
[80] Iliad, v. 544, 545.
[81] See Book i. ch. 3.
[82] One might also infer the same from the fate of Marsyas.
[83] See Book v. ch. 16.
[84] v. 395-397.
[85] Iliad, xv. 518, 519.