A favourite thought with the ancients. Compare Isocrates, "Admonitio ad Demonicum," p. 18; and Aristotle, "Nic. Eth.," iv. 3.

"Republic," vii. p. 489, E.

A famous Proverb. It is "the master's eye" generally, as in Xenophon, "Œconom." xii. 20; and Aristotle, "Œconom." i. 6.

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

See Pausanias, ix. 9. Also Erasmus, "Adagia."

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

See Plutarch's Lysander.

Or symposium, where all sorts of liberties were taken.

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

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