This Consolatory Letter ends rather abruptly. It is probable that there was more of it.

Plato, "Clitophon," p. 407, C.

Aristophanes, "Clouds," 983.

Does Juvenal allude to this, viii. 97?

So as to look modest and be "Ingenui vultus pueri, ingenuique pudoris."

Reading with Salmasius, ἀναβαλεῐν.

Herodotus, iv. 2. The historian, however, assigns other reasons for blinding them.

A line from "Odyssey," xv. 323.

"Malim δαιτυμόνας." Wyttenbach, who remarks generally on this short treatise, "Non integra videtur esse nec continua disputatio, sed disputationis, Plutarcheæ tamen, excerptum compendium."