[637] Shakespeare puts all this into one line: "Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds."—2 Henry IV., A. iv. Sc. iv.
[638] Or girls. κόρη means both a girl, and the pupil of the eye.
[639] So Wyttenbach.
[640] These lines are quoted again "On Moral Virtue," [§ vi.]
[641] "Iliad," xxiv. 44, 45.
[642] Euripides, "Bellerophon," Fragm., 313.
[643] Soph., Fragm., 736.
[644] Surely it is necessary to read προδιαφθαρẽισα τῷ ἀκολάστῳ.
[645] See Plato, "Charmides," 165 A.
[646] Euripides, "Medea," 290, 291.