"Midias," p. 411, C.

i.e., occasionally and sparingly.

Diogenes Laertius assigns the remark to Aristippus, while Stobæus fathers it on Aristo.

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."