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.