361, 362. The lines were
favourite ones with our author. He quotes them again, Sec.
3, of "How one may be aware of one's Progress in
Virtue."

[26] See Pausanias, ix. 9. Also Erasmus, "Adagia."

[27] A fragment from the "Protesilaus" of Euripides. Our
"It takes two to make a quarrel."

[28] See Plutarch's Lysander.

[29] Or _symposium_, where all sorts of liberties were
taken.

[30] I have softened his phrase. His actual words were
very coarse, and would naturally be resented by Ptolemy.
See Athenaeus, 621, A.

[31] See "Iliad," v. 83; xvi. 334; xx, 477.

[32] A fragment from the "Dictys" of Euripides.

[33] "Republ." v. 463, F. sq.

[34] Cf. Shakespeare's "Winter Tale," Act iii. sc. iii.
59-63.

[35] As Horace's father did. See "Satires," Book i. Sat.
iv. 105-129.

[36] What we call _black sheep_.

[37] From Simonides. Cf. Seneca, "Epist." xlix. "Punctum
est quod vivimus, et adhuc puncto minus."

[38] Reading with Wyttenbach, [Greek: hos ek logikes
technes.]

[39] Like _Carker_ in Dombey.

[40] Compare the character of Micio in the "Adelphi" of
Terence.

[41] This saying is assigned by Diogenes Laertius to
Pittacus.

[42] Compare Plautus, "Asinaria," i. l. 74. "Argentum
accepi: dote imperum vendidi." Compare also our author,
"Whether Vice is sufficient to cause Unhappiness," Sec. i.

[43] Wyttenbach thinks this treatise is not Plutarch's.
He bases his conclusion partly on external, partly on
internal, grounds. It is not quoted by Stobaeus, or any
of the ancients, before the fourteenth century. And its
style is not Plutarch's; it has many words foreign to
Plutarch: it has "nescio quid novum ac peregrinum, ab
illa Plutarchea copia et gravitate diversum leve et
inane." Certainly its matter is superior to its manner.

ON LOVE TO ONE'S OFFSPRING.

Sec. I. Appeals to foreign law-courts were first devised among the Greeks
through mistrust of one another's justice, for they looked on justice as
a necessity not indigenous among them. Is it not on much the same
principle that the philosophers, in regard to some of their questions,
owing to their variety of opinion, have appealed to the brute creation
as to a strange state, and submitted the decision to their instincts and
habits as not to be talked over and impartial? Or is it a gen