e a Fragment in the "Danae"
of Euripides. Dind. (328).

[296] On these see Pausanias, v. 7.

[297] Such as Homer could have brought. Compare Horace,
"Odes," iv. ix. 25-28; and Cicero, "pro Archia," x.
"Magnus ille Alexander--cum in Sigeo ad Achillis tumulum
adstitisset, O fortunate, inquit, adolescens, qui tuae
virtutis Homerum praeconem inveneris."

[298] Contrary to Hesiod's saw, "Works and Days," 361,
362.

[299] So Juvenal, xiv. 138-140.

[300] Like Horace's "Non si male nunc, et olim Sic
erit." "Odes," ii. x. 16, 17.

[301] _Noblesse oblige_ in fact.

[302] Pindar, Frag. 206.

[303] Like Horace's _factus ad unguem_, because the
sculptor tries its polish and the niceness of the joints
by drawing his nail over the surface. Casaub. Pers. i.
64; Horace, "Sat." i. v. 32, 33; A. P. 294; Erasmus,
"Adagia," p. 507.

WHETHER VICE IS SUFFICIENT TO CAUSE
UNHAPPINESS.[304]

Sec. I. ... He who gets a dowry with his wife sells himself for it, as
Euripides says,[305] but his gains are few and uncertain; but he who
does not go all on fire through many a funeral pile, but through a regal
pyre, full of panting and fear and sweat got from travelling over the
sea as a merchant, has the wealth of Tantalus, but cannot enjoy it owing
to his want of leisure. For that Sicyonian horse-breeder was wise, who
gave Agamemnon as a present a swift mare, "that he should not follow him
to wind-swept Ilium, but delight himself at home,"[306] in the quiet
enjoyment of his abundant riches and painless leisure. But nowadays
courtiers, and people who think they have a turn for affairs, thrust
themselves forward of their own accord uninvited into courts and
toilsome escorts and bivouacs, that they may get a horse, or brooch, or
some such piece of good luck. "But his wife is left behind in Phylace,
and tears her cheeks in her sorrow, and his house is only half complete
without him,"[307] while he is dragged about, and wanders about, and
wastes his time in idle hopes, and has to put up with much insult. And
even if he gets any of those things he desires, giddy and dizzy at
Fortune's rope-dance, he seeks retirement, and deems those happy who
live obscure and in security, while they again look up admiringly at him
who soars so high above their heads.[308]

Sec. II. Vice has universally an ill effect on everybody, being in itself a
sufficient producer of infel