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decepto..... Sola est, in qua merito culpetur, pecuniæ cupiditas."—Suetonius, "Divus Vespasianus," 15, 16.

CONJUGAL PRECEPTS.

1

This tune is again alluded to by Plutarch in "Quæstion. Convival"., p. 704, F. See also Clemens Alexandrinus, "Pædagog." ii. p. 164, Α ταῐς δὲ ἵπποις μιγνυμέναις οἷον ὑμέναιος ἐπαυλεῖται νόμος αὐλωδιας ἱππόθορον τοῦτον κεκληκασιν οἱ Μουσικοί.

2

Peitho means Persuasion, and is represented as one of the Graces by Hermes anax. See Pausanias, ix. 35.

3

Compare the Proverb Εικελὸς ὀμφακίζεται, and Tibullus, iii. 5, 19: "Quid fraudare juvat vitem crescentibus uvis?"

4

Cf. Shakspere, "Romeo and Juliet," A. ii. Sc. vi. 9-15.

5

Herodotus, i. 8.

6

An allusion to the well-known Fable of Æsop, No. 82 in Halm's edition.

7

This comparison of the mirror is beautifully used by Keble in his "Christian Year:" "Without a hope on earth to find A mirror in an answering mind." Wednesday before Easter.

8

Does this throw light on Esther, i. 10-12?

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