7
A great craving for sympathy would be the modern way of putting it.
8
See the Fable of Æsop, entitled Πένθους γερας, No. 355. Halme. See also Plutarch's "Consolation to Apollonius," § xix., where the Fable is told at some length.
9
Reading with Reiske οὐκ ἂν εἰπεῖν φοβηθείην.
10
An allusion to Euripides, "Andromache," 930. See Plutarch's "Conjugal Precepts," § xl.
11
The whole subject is discussed in full by Athenæus, p. 632, F. F. A false quantity we see was a bugbear even before the days of Universities.