[404] "Iliad," x. 249. They are words of Odysseus.
[405] This was carrying flattery rather far. "Mithridatis medicinæ scientia multis memorata veterum."—Wyttenbach.
[406] Euripides, "Alcestis," 1159.
[407] Our author gives this definition to Simonides, "De Gloria Atheniensium," § iii.
[408] So our author again, "On Contentedness of Mind," [§ xii.]
[409] See Herodotus, i. 30, 33; Juvenal, x. 274, 275; and Pausanias, ii. 20.
[410] "Nobile Stoæ Paradoxum. Cicero Fin. iii. 22, ex persona Catonis. Horatius ridet Epistol. i. 1. 106-108. Ad summam sapiens uno minor est Jove: dives, Liber, honoratus, pulcher, rex denique regum; Præcipue sanus, nisi quum pituita molesta est."—Wyttenbach.
[411] See also "On Contentedness of Mind," [§ xii.]
[412] Homer, "Iliad," xvi. 141. See the context also from 130 sq.
[413] Our author has used this illustration again in "Phocion," p. 742 B.