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.

Reading with Halm and Hercher ἐν τῷ πολλοῖς φιλοῖς χρῆσθαι.

Euripides, "Hippolytus," 253-257, where Dindorf and Hercher agree in the reading.