Compare Shakspere, "Tempest," A. i. Sc. i. 63, "And gape at widest to glut him."

Hesiod, "Works and Days," 361, 362. Quoted again by our author, "On Education," § 13.

"In via ad virtutem qui non progreditur, is non stat et manet, sed regreditur."—Wyttenbach.

Adopting the reading of Hercher. See Pausanias, x. 37, where the oracle is somewhat different.

For the town which parleys surrenders.

From Homer, "Iliad," xix. 386.

Compare Aristotle, Rhetoric, i. 11. και ἀρχή δὲ τοῦ ἔρωτος γίγνεται αὕτη πᾶσιν, ὅταν μὴ μόνον παρόντος χαίρωσιν, ἀλλὰ και ἀπόντος μεμνημένοι ἔρῶσιν.

The line is a Fragment of Sophocles.

See Hesiod, "Works and Days," 289-292.

The well-known Cynic philosopher.