Reading with Halm and Hercher ἐν τῷ πολλοῖς φιλοῖς χρῆσθαι.
Euripides, "Hippolytus," 253-257, where Dindorf and Hercher agree in the reading.
Compare "On Education," § xvii.
Chilo was one of the Seven Wise Men. See Pausanias, iii. 16; X. 24.
For the circumstances see Euripides, "Medea," 1136 sq.
For the friendship of Theseus and Pirithous, see Pausanias, i. 17; x. 29. The line is from Euripides, "Pirithous," Fragm. 591. Cf. "On Shyness," § x.
Thucydides, ii. 51.
Bergk. p. 5003.
On Proteus, see Verg. "Georg." iv. 387 sq.; Ovid, "Art." i. 761; "Met." ii. 9; "Fasti," i. 367 sq., and especially Horace, "Epistles," i. i. 90: "Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo?"
Literally, "having no hearth of character," the hearth being an emblem of stability. Compare "How One may Discern a Flatterer from a Friend," § vii., where the same image is employed.