[562] Our "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
[563] "Non Citticus, sed Eleates. v. Cic. Tuscul. ii. 22, et Nat. Deor. 3, 33."—Reiske.
[564] See Pausanias, i. 23. Leæna means "lioness." On the conspiracy see Thucydides, vi. 54-59.
[565] Homer, "Odyssey," xix. 494. Plutarch quotes from memory. The nurse's name was Euryclea.
[566] Odyssey," xix. 210-212. Quoted again "On Moral Virtue," § iv.
[567] Literally bark. See "Odyssey," xx. 13, 16.
[568] "Odyssey," xx. 23.
[569] See "Odyssey," ix. Κυκλώπεια.
[570] Euripides, "Ino." Fragment, 416.
[571] "Significat Q. Cæcilium Metellum, de quo Liv. xl. 45, 46."—Reiske.