A similar story about the Samians and Lacedæmonians is told by Aristotle, "Œconom." ii. 9.

Also in "Conjugal Precepts," § xxix.

See Persius, iii. 21, 22, with Jahn's Note.

See "On Love," § xxi.

"Auri plumbique oppositio fere proverbialis est. Petronius, 'Satyricon,' 43. Plane fortunæ filius: in manu illius plumbum aureum fiebat."—Wyttenbach. The passage about the Lydian chariot is said to be by Pindar in our author, "Nicias," p. 523 D.