[Pg 10][17] An inspection of the historical incidents mentioned here and further on, indicates that Agricola relied for such information on Diogenes Laertius, Plutarch, Livy, Valerius Maximus, Pliny, and often enough on Homer, Horace, and Virgil.
[18] Juvenal. Satires I., l. 112, and VI., l. 298.
[Pg 11][19] Pliny, XXXIV., 39.
[20] Horace. Odes, I., 35, ll. 17-20.
[Pg 15][21] Horace. Satires, II., 3, ll. 99-102.
[Pg 16][22] Virgil. Æneid, III., l. 55, and I., l. 349.
[Pg 17][23] Horace. Satires, I., l. 73; and Epistle, I., 10, l. 47.
[Pg 18][25] Theognis. Maxims, II., l. 210.
[Pg 19][26] Pindar. Olymp. II., 58-60.
[27] Antiphanes, 4.