Does this refer to Πηληίαδεω before Ἀχιλῆος in "Iliad," i. 1?
An allusion to some passage in a Play that has not come down to us.
Compare our Author, De Audiendis Poetis, § xi. ὥσπερ ὁ Ἀγησίλαοσ οὐκ ὑπέμεινεν ὑπὸ τοῦ καλοῦ φιληθῆναι προσιόντος.
Reading with Madvig and Hercher, τὸ γὰρ αὺτὸν, sq.
Literally cork-like, so vain, empty. So Horace, "levior cortice," "Odes," iii. 9, 22.
Marks of a philosopher among the ancients. Compare our Author, "How one may discern a flatterer from a friend," § vii.
"Odyssey," xvi. 187.
"Turpe habitum fuisse in caupona conspici, et hoc exemplo apparet, et alia sunt indicia. Isocrates Orat. Areopagitica laudans antiquorum Atheniensium mores, p. 257: ἐν καπηλείῳ δὲ φαγεῖν ἢ πιεῖν οὐδεὶς ἃν οἰκέτης ἐπιεικὴς ἐτὸλμησε: quem locum citans Athenæus alia etiam adfert xiii. p. 566, F."—Wyttenbach.
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."