Chæronea in Bœotia.

"Œconomicus," cap. viii.

The mother of Œdipus, better known as "Jocasta."

Homer, "Odyssey," xi. 278. Epicaste hung herself.

"οἰκίσκῳ corrigit Valekenarius ad Herodot. p. 557."—Wyttenbach.

Aristophanes, "Equites," 79.

Æschylus, "Supplices," 937.

All three being eminent doctors.

"Intelligo Charondam."—Xylander.

Plutarch wants to show that curiosity and adultery are really the same vice in principle. Hence his imagery here. Jeremy Taylor has very beautifully dealt with this passage, "Holy Living," chap. ii. § v. I cannot pretend to his felicity of language. Thus Plutarch makes adultery mere