[277] Literally cork-like, so vain, empty. So Horace, "levior cortice," "Odes," iii. 9, 22.
[278] Marks of a philosopher among the ancients. Compare our Author, "How one may discern a flatterer from a friend," § vii.
[279] "Odyssey," xvi. 187.
[280] Æschylus, "Toxotides," Fragm. 224. Quoted again by our author, "On Love," § xxi.
[281] "Turpe habitum fuisse in caupona conspici, et hoc exemplo apparet, et alia sunt indicia. Isocrates Orat. Areopagitica laudans antiquorum Atheniensium mores, p. 257: ἐν καπηλείῳ δὲ φαγεῖν ἢ πιεῖν οὐδεὶς ἃν οἰκέτης ἐπιεικὴς ἐτὸλμησε: quem locum citans Athenæus alia etiam adfert xiii. p. 566, F."—Wyttenbach.
[282] Wyttenbach compares Quintilian, "Institut. Orat." iii. 6, p. 255: "Nam et Hippocrates clarus arte medicinæ videtur honestissime fecisse, qui quosdam errores suos, ne posteri errarent, confessus est."
[283] Homer, "Odyssey," vi. 187.
[284] Homer, "Odyssey," xxiv. 402.
[285] Plato, "Republic," ix. p. 571, D.
[286] A somewhat similar story about Stilpo is told in Athenæus, x. p. 423, D.