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So Cicero, "Nat. Deor." ii. 56: "In ædibus architecti avertunt ab oculis naribusque dominorum ea quæ profluentia necessario tætri essent aliquid habitura."

32

"Works and Days," 23-26. Our "Two of a trade seldom agree."

33

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

34

For as the English proverb says, "Hatred is blind as well as love."

35

"Laws," v. p. 728 A.

36

Quoted more fully "How One may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," § vi.

37

"Laws," v. p. 731 E. See also above, § vii.

ON TALKATIVENESS.

1

Or Heptaphonos. See Pausanias, v. 21.

2

So our English proverb, "Empty vessels make the greatest sound."

3

Literally in a semi-circular place. It is not quite clear whether the front seats of the theatre are meant, or, as I have taken it, more generally, of

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