: Kyklopeia].

[570] Euripides, "Ino." Fragment, 416.

[571] "Significat Q. Caecilium Metellum, de quo Liv. xl.
45, 46."--_Reiske._

[572] Euripides, "Ino." Fragm. 415. Compare St. James,
iii. 5, 6.

[573] Fabius Maximus. So Tacitus, "Annals," i. 5, who
relates this story somewhat differently.

[574] See Tacitus, "Annals," i. 3. As to his fate, see
"Annals," i. 6.

[575] Tiberius Nero, who actually did succeed Augustus.

[576] The Emperor's wife.

[577] So it is in Sec. xii. But perhaps here it means, "I
wish you had more sense, Fabius!"

[578] Adopting the reading of Reiske.

[579] Reading [Greek: phorutou] or [Greek: phoryton], as
Wyttenbach.

[580] Reading [Greek: katechein dynantai] with Reiske.

[581] See Sophocles, Fragm. 162.

[582] Homer, "Iliad," x. 457.

[583] Compare "Moralia," p. 177 A; Horace, "Satires," i.
7. 3: "Omnibus et lippis notum et tonsoribus."

[584] Homer, "Iliad," xxii. 207.

[585] Sophocles, "Antigone," 317-319.

[586] See Pausanias, iii. 17; iv. 15; x. 5.

[587] Compare the idea of the people of Melita, Acts
xxviii. 4.

[588] An Allusion to Dolon in Homer, "Iliad," x., 374,
sq. according to Xylander.

[589] Quoted again by our author in his "Publicola," p.
105 B., and assigned to Epicharmus.

[590] So Shakspere has taught us, "Brevity is the soul
of wit."--_Hamlet_, Act ii Sc. 2.

[591] "In Protagora."--_Xylander._

[592] That is, is all kernel. See passim our author's
"Apophthegmata Laconica."

[593] Or, _apophthegmatic nature_.

[594] Dionysius the younger, tyrant of Syracuse, was
expelled, and afterwards kept a school at Corinth. That
is the allusion. It would be like saying "Remember
Napoleon at St. Helena."

[595] See Pausanias, x. 24.

[596] See Plato, "Charmides," 165 A.

[597] A title applied to Apollo first by Herodotus, i.
91, from his ambiguous ([Greek: loxa]) oracles.

[598] Part of the words of an oracle of the Pythian
Priestess, slightly changed. The whole oracle may be
seen in Herodotus, i. 47.

[599] Proverb of cross purposes.

[600] Reading [Greek: exerasthai] with Duebner.

[601] Catullus calls him "tumidus," _i.e._ long-winded,
95, 10. See also Propertius, iii. 34-32. He was a Greek
poet, a contemporary of Socrates and Plato