[92] Rhet. iii. II, 1412ᵃ. εὐστοχία sees analogies, like Archytas, who says “a διαιτητὴς is like an altar”—for to both the injured flee!

[93] Eth. Eud. vii. 5, 1240ᵃ 2.

[94] Cf. Ps. cxv. 4-8. Esp. Isaiah xliv. and xlvi.

[95] A recent writer, H. McLachlan (St. Luke, the Man and his Work, Manchester Univ. Press, 1920), has drawn attention to the humorous gift of the third Evangelist, and entitles one of his chapters “Luke the Humorist.” See also the present writer’s St. Luke (Westminster Commentaries, Methuen, 1922, Introduction, pp. xxix. sq.).

[96] Cronica Fratris Salimbene de Adam (Ed. Holder-Egger, Hanover, 1905-1913), pp. 77 sqq. “Florentini ... trufatores maximi sunt.”

[97] Rhet. ii. 1389ᵇ 10. οἰ νέοι ... φιλογέλωτες, διὸ καὶ εὐτράπελοι; ἡ γὰρ εὐτραπελία πεπαιδευμένη ὕβρις ἐστίν.

[98] Purg. x. 130-3.

[99] Nino Tammassia, S. Francesco d’ Assisi e la sua Leggenda, Padova, Drucker, 1906. (Eng. Tr. Fisher Unwin, 1910).

[100] D. G. Rossetti, The Early Italian Poets, etc.

[101] Purg. xxiii. 115 sqq.