The reference is to the rites of Cybele. See Lucretius, ii. 618.

See Erasmus, "Adagia." The French proverb is "La nuit tous les chats sont gris."

"Laws," p. 729, C.

Theano was the wife of Pythagoras.

See Livy, xxix. 14. Propertius, v. 11. 51, 52. Ovid, "Fasti," iv. 305 sq.

And mother of the Gracchi.

Jeremy Taylor, in his beautiful sermon on "The Marriage Ring," has borrowed not a few hints from this treatise of Plutarch, as usual investing with a new beauty whatever he borrows, from whatever source. He had the classics at his fingers' end, and much of his unique charm he owes to them. But he read them as a philosopher, and not as a grammarian.

Timoxena, as we see later on, § ix.

Adopting Reiske's reading, μαστὸν κελεύουσα, προεκαλεῖτο καθάπερ.