80
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."
81
"Iliad," xi. 654.
82
Cf. Plutarch, "Phocion," p. 746 D.
83
A proverb of persons on the brink of destruction. Wells among the ancients were uncovered.
84
"Iliad," ii. 215, of Thersites. As to Theagenes, see Seneca, "De Ira," ii. 23.