ouk echontos po Aischynen toutou tou ergou pherontos de ti kai Doxes mallon. Thucydides, L. 1. sub initio.
kai euklees touto oi Kilikes enomizon. Sextus Empiricus.
ouk adoxon all'endoxon touto. Schol. &c. &c.
Aristoph. Plut. Act. 2. Scene 5.
Zenoph. Apomnemon, L. 1.
Herodotus. L. 2. 113.
"Apud Ægyptios, si quis servum sponte occiderat, eum
morte damnari æque ac si liberum occidisset, jubebant leges &c."
Diodorus Sic. L. 1.
"Atq id ne vos miremini, Homines servulos
Potare, amare, atq ad coenam condicere.
Licet hoc Athenis.
Plautus. Sticho."
"Be me kratison esin eis to Theseion
Dramein, ekei d'eos an eurombou prasin
menein" Aristoph. Horæ.
Kaka toiade paskousin oude prasin
Aitousin. Eupolis. poleis.
To this privilege Plautus alludes in his Casina, where he introduces a slave, speaking in the following manner. "Quid tu me verò libertate territas?
Quod si tu nolis, siliusque etiam tuus
Vobis invitis, atq amborum ingratiis,
Una libella liber possum fieri."
Homer. Odys. P. 322. In the latest edition of Homer, the word, which we have translated senses, is Aretae, or virtue, but the old and proper reading is Noos, as appears from Plato de Legibus, ch. 6, where he quotes it on a similar occasion.
Aristotle. Polit. Ch. 2. et inseq.