[444] Compare § i.
[445] Compare our Author, "Quaestiones Convivalium," viii. p. 717 F.
[446] So Horace, "Satires," i. 2, 24: "Dum vitant stulti vitia in contraria currunt."
[447] Homer, "Iliad," xiv. 84, 85.
[448] Compare Cicero, "De Officiis," i. 25: "Omnis autem animadversio et castigatio contumelia vacare debet: neque ad ejus, qui punitur aliquem aut verbis fatigat, sed ad reipublicæ utilitatem referri."
[449] "Iliad," xi. 654.
[450] "Iliad," xvi. 33-35.
[451] Cf. Plutarch, "Phocion," p. 746 D.
[452] A proverb of persons on the brink of destruction. Wells among the ancients were uncovered.
[453] "Iliad," ii. 215, of Thersites. As to Theagenes, see Seneca, "De Ira," ii. 23.