[667] Our "Set a thief to catch a thief."
[668] Or strigil. See Otto Jahn's note on Persius, v. 126.
[669] "Forsitan illa quam nominat Pausanias, i. 27."—Reiske.
[670] Literally "want of tune in." We cannot well keep up the metaphor. Compare with this passage, "That virtue may be taught," § ii.
[671] Literally "crowns."
[672] Thucydides, ii. 64. Pericles is the speaker. Quoted again in "How one may discern a flatterer from a friend," § xxxv.
[673] "Est Bio Borysthenita, de quo vide Diog. Laërt."—Reiske.
[674] "De Alexino Eleo vide Diog. Laërt., ii. 109. Nostri p. 1063, 3."—Reiske.
[675] Antisthenes wrote a book called "Hercules." See Diogenes Laertius, vi. 16.