The well-known Cynic philosopher.

Bergk. fr. 15. Compare Homer, "Iliad," vi. 339. νίκη δ᾽ ἐπαμείβεται ἄνδρας.

We are told by Diogenes Läertius, v. 37, that Theophrastus had 2000 hearers sometimes at once.

"Republic," vii. p. 539, B.

Sentences borrowed from some author or other, such, as we still possess from the hands of Hermogenes and Aphthonius; compare the collection of bon-mots of Greek courtesans in Athenæus.

A reference to Æsop's Fable, Λέων και Ἀλώπηξ. Cf. Horace, "Epistles," i. i. 73-75.

This passage is alluded to also in "On Love to one's Offspring." § ii.

Madvig's text.

Thucydides, i. 18.

Homer, "Iliad," ix. 323, 324. Quoted also in "On Love to One's Offspring," § ii.