[657] Our "Out of the frying-pan into the fire." Cf. "Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim."
[658] By their having to borrow themselves.
[659] Fragm. 947.
[660] Or apophthegms, of which Plutarch and Lord Verulam have both left us collections.
[661] Thucydides, ii. 40. Pericles is the speaker.
[662] A slightly-changed line from Euripides' "Pirithous," Fragm. 591. Quoted correctly "On Abundance of Friends," [§ vii.]
[663] "Zenonis discipulus."—Reiske.
[664] "Works and Days," 371.
[665] Cf. Shakspere, "Hamlet," i. iii. 76.
[666] Euripides, "Medea," 1078.