Wyttenbach compares Quintilian, "Institut. Orat." iii. 6, p. 255: "Nam et Hippocrates clarus arte medicinæ videtur honestissime fecisse, qui quosdam errores suos, ne posteri errarent, confessus est."

Homer, "Odyssey," vi. 187.

Homer, "Odyssey," xxiv. 402.

Plato, "Republic," ix. p. 571, D.

A somewhat similar story about Stilpo is told in Athenæus, x. p. 423, D.

So Haupt and Herscher very ingeniously for ἱερεῦσιν.

Adopting the suggestion of Wyttenbach as to the reading. The Dorian measure was grave and severe, the Lydian soft and effeminate.

See our author, "Apophthegmata Laconica," p. 220 C.

Plato, "Symposium," p. 25, E.

Plato, "Laws," iv. p. 711, E.

See those splendid lines of Lucretius, iv. 1155-1169.