[424] Assigned to Pittacus by our author, "Septem Sapientum Convivium," § ii.
[425] So Wyttenbach, who reads ἐνστάσεις, and translates, "et libertate loquendi in nobis reprehendendis utitur, quando nos cupiditatibus morbisque animi nostri non indulgere, sed resistere, volumus."
[426] "Phœnissæ," 469-472.
[427] Like Juvenal's "Græculus esuriens in cælum, jusseris, ibit."—Juvenal, iii, 78.
[428] These are two successive lines found three times in Homer, "Iliad," xiv. 195, 196; xviii. 426, 427; "Odyssey," v. 89, 90. The two lines are in each case spoken by one person.
[429] Probably lines from "The Flatterer" of Menander.
[430] From the "Ino" of Euripides.
[431] From the "Erechtheus" of Euripides.
[432] We know from Athenæus, p. 420 D, that Apelles and Arcesilaus were friends.
[433] An allusion to Hesiod, "Works and Days," 235. Cf. Horace, "Odes," iv. 5. 23.