[257] For the town which parleys surrenders.
[258] From Homer, "Iliad," xix. 386.
[259] Compare Aristotle, Rhetoric, i. 11. και ἀρχή δὲ τοῦ ἔρωτος γίγνεται αὕτη πᾶσιν, ὅταν μὴ μόνον παρόντος χαίρωσιν, ἀλλὰ και ἀπόντος μεμνημένοι ἔρῶσιν.
[260] The line is a Fragment of Sophocles.
[261] See Hesiod, "Works and Days," 289-292.
[262] The well-known Cynic philosopher.
[263] Bergk. fr. 15. Compare Homer, "Iliad," vi. 339. νίκη δ᾽ ἐπαμείβεται ἄνδρας.
[264] We are told by Diogenes Läertius, v. 37, that Theophrastus had 2000 hearers sometimes at once.
[265] "Republic," vii. p. 539, B.
[266] Sentences borrowed from some author or other, such, as we still possess from the hands of Hermogenes and Aphthonius; compare the collection of bon-mots of Greek courtesans in Athenæus.