I got round him.—Comprehensive person.
They went to law, but were compounded.—You don't say they didn't get apart again?
He would apply the same delicate treatment to people unsound in their Attic.
'That's the truth of it,' said some one, 'between you and I.' 'Ah no, you will have to admit that you and me are wrong there.'
Another person giving a circumstantial account of a local legend said: 'So when she mingled with Heracles—' 'Without Heracles's mingling with her?'
He asked a man who told him that he must have a close crop, what his particular felony had been.
'There I quarrel,' said his opponent in an argument. 'It takes two to make a quarrel.'
When some one described his sick servant as undergoing torture, he asked, 'What for? what do they suppose they are going to get out of him?'
Some one was said to be going ahead in his studies. 'Let me see,' he said; 'it is Plato, I think, who calls that making progress.'