A play by Sophocles, now only in fragments, relating the life of Achilles in the island of Scyros, the scene of his amour with Deidamia, the daughter of Lycomedes, by whom he became the father of Pyrrhus.

Thucydides, ii. 64. Quoted again in "On Shyness," § xviii.

See also "De Audiendo," § x.

πότους comes in rather curiously here. Can any other word lurk under it?

"Phœnissæ," 528, 529.

Homer, "Iliad," vi. 347.

In Dindorf's "Poetæ Scenici Græci," Fragment 152.

As it is not quite clear why Achilles should have been angry about his supper, διὰ τὸ δειπνὸν, apropos of the context, Wyttenbach ingeniously suggests, as this lost play of Sophocles was called Συν δεῖπνον, that Plutarch may have written ἐν τῷ Δείπνῳ.

Compare "How One may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," § xi.

"Ductum e proverbiali dictione βαλόντα ἐκφεύγειν, emisso telo aufugere."—Wyttenbach.