[552] Ibid. 466.
[553] Compare the German proverb, "Thought when sober, said when drunk"—"Nuchtern gedacht, voll gesagt."
[554] Cf. Quintilian, x. 1, 78: "His ætate Lysias major, subtilis atque elegans et quo nihil, si oratori satis est docere, quæras perfectius. Nihil enim est inane, nihil arcessitum; puro tamen fonti quam magno flumini propior." Cf. ix. 4, 17.
[555] Somewhat like Pindar, "Pyth." i. 1. 1, 2.
[556] "Odyssey," xii. 452, 453.
[557] See Cicero, "Ad Fam." vii. 18; Catullus, xxii. 5, 6.
[558] See "Iliad," xiv. 214-217.
[559] "Allusio ad Homericum ἐπεἱ πόνος ἄλλος ἐπείγει."—Xylander.
[560] "Laws," xi. p. 935 A.
[561] So true are the words of Æschylus, γλώσσῃ ματαίᾳ ζημία προστρίβεται.—"Prom." 329.