"Ductum e proverbiali dictione βαλόντα ἐκφεύγειν, emisso telo aufugere."—Wyttenbach.

So Pliny, viii. 83: "In Creta Insula non vulpes ursive, atque omnino millum maleficum animal præter phalangium."

See the same remark of Chilo, "On Abundance of Friends," § vi.

"Œconom." i. 15.

A treatise of Plutarch still extant.

So fire is called πάντεχνον in Æschylus, "Prometheus Desmotes," 7.