And compare Virgil, Ecl. v. 27, 28; Georg. I. 466-488; Georg. IV. 461-463; Catullus, Carmen XXXI., Ad Sirmionem Peninsulam, the three last lines. See also Theocritus, Idyll 3, and compare the philosophic myths in the stories of Orpheus, Amphion, etc.—ED.
[AV] Compare δν οἱ θεοὶ ϕιλοῦσιν, ἀποθνήσκει νέος.
Whom the gods love, die young.
Menander, quoted (amongst others) by Plutarch, Consol. ad Apollonium, cap. 34. For other authorities, see Meineke's Comicorum Græcorum Fragmenta.—ED.
[AW] The hand-loom was common in many of the cottages of the country, as well as in the manufacturing towns of England and Scotland, until quite recently.—ED.
[AX] Psalm ciii. 16.—ED.
[AY] Compare λύοντες οὐκ ἤκουον.—(Æsch. Prom. v. 447.)
Also S. Matt. xiii. 13-15—
They seeing, see not; and hearing, they hear not.
And Shakespeare, Richard III. act IV. scene iv. 1. 26—