Wyttenbach compares Juvenal, iii. 100-108.

See my note "On Abundance of Friends," § ix. Wyttenbach well points out the felicity of the expression here, "siquidem parasitus est άοικος καὶ ἀνέστιος."

Compare "How one may be aware of one's progress in virtue," § x. Cf. also Horace, "Satires," ii. iii. 35; Quintilian, xi. 1.

The demagogue is a kind of flatterer. See Aristotle, "Pol." iv. 4.

Cf. Aristophanes, "Acharnians," 153, ὅπερ μαχιμώτατον θρᾳκῶν ἔθνος.

Plato was somewhat of a traveller, he three times visited Syracuse, and also travelled in Egypt.

As to the polypus, see "On Abundance of Friends," § ix.

As "Fumum et opes strepitumque Romæ."—Horace, "Odes," iii. 29. 12.

Homer, "Odyssey," xvi. 181.

As to these traits in Plato and Aristotle, compare "De Audiendis Poetis," § viii. And as to Alexander, Plutarch tells us in his Life that he used to