64
"Phœnissæ," 469-472.
65
Like Juvenal's "Græculus esuriens in cælum, jusseris, ibit."—Juvenal, iii, 78.
66
We know from Athenæus, p. 420 D, that Apelles and Arcesilaus were friends.
67
An allusion to Hesiod, "Works and Days," 235. Cf. Horace, "Odes," iv. 5. 23.
68
See the beautiful story of Baucis and Philemon, Ovid, "Metamorphoses," viii. 626-724: "Cura pii dis sunt, et qui coluere coluntur."
69
Compare Terence, "Andria," 43, 44. So too Seneca, "De Beneficiis," ii. 10: "Hæc enim beneficii inter duos lex est: alter statim oblivisci debet dati, alter accepti nunquam. Lacerat animum et premit frequens meritorum commemoratio."