16
Plutarch rather reminds one, in his evident contempt for Epitaphs, of the cynic who asked, "Where are all the bad people buried?" Where indeed?
17
euphronê, a stock phrase for night, is here defined.
18
"Historia exstat initio libri quinti Cyropædiæ."—Reiske.
19
Literally, "slippery and prone to." For the metaphor of "slippery" compare Horace, "Odes," i. 19-8, "Et vultus nimium lubricus adspici."
20
Literally, ears.
21
The paronomasia is as follows. The word for impious people is supposed to mean listeners to mills grinding.