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

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

Or Heptaphonos. See Pausanias, v. 21.

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

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 some public place for entertainment or meeting, some promenade or piazza.