Compare Cicero, "De Amicitia," xxvi.: "Assentatio, quamvis perniciosa sit, nocere tamen nemini potest, nisi ei, qui eam recipit atque ea delectatur. Ita fit, ut is assentatoribus patefaciat aures suas maxime, qui ipse sibi assentetur et se maxime ipse delectet."

Compare § i.

Compare our Author, "Quaestiones Convivalium," viii. p. 717 F.

So Horace, "Satires," i. 2, 24: "Dum vitant stulti vitia in contraria currunt."

Compare Cicero, "De Officiis," i. 25: "Omnis autem animadversio et castigatio contumelia vacare debet: neque ad ejus, qui punitur aliquem aut verbis fatigat, sed ad reipublicæ utilitatem referri."

"Iliad," xi. 654.

Cf. Plutarch, "Phocion," p. 746 D.

A proverb of persons on the brink of destruction. Wells among the ancients were uncovered.

"Iliad," ii. 215, of Thersites. As to Theagenes, see Seneca, "De Ira," ii. 23.