[414] Namely in § xxvii. where παῤῥησια is discussed.
[415] Contrary to the severe training he ought to undergo, well expressed by Horace, "De Arte Poetica," 412-414.
[416] Reading with Hercher ἀποτυμπανίζοντος και στρεβλοῦντος. This was Ptolemy Physcon.
[417] "Unus ex Alexandri adulatoribus: memoratus Curtio viii. 5, 6."—Wyttenbach.
[418] A common proverb among the ancients. See "Conjugal Precepts," § xl.; Erasmus, "Adagia," pp. 1222, 1838.
[419] A line out of Æschylus' "Myrmidons." Quoted again by our author, "Of Love," § v.
[420] Cleopatra.
[421] Homer, "Odyssey," x. 329. They are the words of Circe to Odysseus. But the line was suspected even by old grammarians, and is put in brackets in modern editions of the "Odyssey."
[422] See Lucretius, iv. 1079-1085.
[423] So Pliny, "Hist. Nat." xxv. 95: "Remedio est (cicutæ), priusquam perveniat ad vitalia, vini natura excalfactoria: sed in vino pota irremediabilis existimatur."