[627] Plutarch rather reminds one, in his evident contempt for Epitaphs, of the cynic who asked, "Where are all the bad people buried?" Where indeed?
[628] Sophocles, "Electra," 724, 725.
[629] euphronê, a stock phrase for night, is here defined.
[630] "Historia exstat initio libri quinti Cyropædiæ."—Reiske.
[631] Literally, "slippery and prone to." For the metaphor of "slippery" compare Horace, "Odes," i. 19-8, "Et vultus nimium lubricus adspici."
[632] This and the line above are in Sophocles, "Œdipus Tyrannus," 1169, 1170.
[633] Euripides, "Orestes," 213.
[634] Literally, ears.
[635] The paronomasia is as follows. The word for impious people is supposed to mean listeners to mills grinding.