From the "Hypsipyle" of Euripides.

A well-known proverb for beginning at the beginning. Aristophanes, "Vespæ." 846; Plato, "Euthryphro," 3 A; Strabo, 9.

An allusion to the well-known proverb, κολοιὸς ποτι κολοιόν. See Erasmus, "Adagia," p. 1644.

The paronomasia is on ἑταῖρος, ἕτερος.

"Iliad," ix. 482; "Odyssey," xvi. 19.

Cf. Cicero, "De Amicitia," xix.

For the image compare Lucio's speech, Shakspere, "Measure for Measure," A. iv. Sc. iii. 189, 190: "Nay, friar, I am a kind of burr; I shall stick."

"Iliad," xxiii. 77, 78.

"Odyssey," iv. 178-180.

"Iliad," v. 902, altered somewhat.

Bergk. p. 1344³.