[464] See Plato's "Symposium," p. 215 E.
[465] See Plato, "Epist." iv. p. 321 B.
[466] See our author, "Apophthegmata," p. 179 C.
[467] Compare Horace, "Satires," i. 1. 7, 8: "Quid enim, concurritur: horæ Momento cita mors venit aut victoria læta."
[468] And so being dainty. See Athenæus, ii. ch. 76.
[469] We see from this and other places that the mountebanks and quacks of the Middle Ages and later times existed also among the ancients. Human nature in its great leading features is ever the same. "Omne ignotum pro magnifico est."
[470] "Laws," p. 729 C.
[471] Homer, "Odyssey," i. 157; iv. 70; xvii. 592.
[472] Ptolemy V., Epiphanes. The circumstances are related by Polybius, xv. 29; xvii. 35.
[473] See "Acharnians," 501, 502.