See Pausanias, vi. 25. The statue was made of ivory and gold.

Compare Terence, "Hecyra," 201. "Uno animo omnes socrus oderunt nurus." As to stepmotherly feelings, the "injusta noverca" has passed into a proverb with all nations. See for example Hesiod, "Works and Days," 823, ἄλλοτε μητρυιὴ πἐλει ἡμἐρη, ἄλλοτε μήτηρ.

Wyttenbach compares Seneca's "Fidelem si putaveris facies." "Ep." iii. p. 6.

Euripides, "Medea," 190-198.

See Mulier Parturiens, Phaedrus' "Fables," i. 18.

Proverb. Cf. Horace, "Oleum adde camino," ii. "Sat." iii. 321.

See Æsop's Fables, No. 121. Halme. Δραπέτης is the title. All readers of Plautus and Terence know what a bugbear to slaves the threat of being sent to the mill was. They would have to turn it instead of horses, or other cattle.

That is, Yoking oxen for the plough.

Procreation of children was among the ancients frequently called Ploughing and Sowing. Hence the allusions in this paragraph. So, too, Shakspere, "Measure for Measure," Act i. Sc. iv. 41-44.