Shakespeare puts all this into one line: "Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds."—2 Henry IV., A. iv. Sc. iv.

Or girls. κόρη means both a girl, and the pupil of the eye.

So Wyttenbach.

These lines are quoted again "On Moral Virtue," § vi.

Euripides, "Bellerophon," Fragm., 313.

Surely it is necessary to read προδιαφθαρẽισα τῷ ἀκολάστῳ.

See Plato, "Charmides," 165 A.

"Works and Days," 342.

Reading with Wyttenbach, μήδ᾽ ὑπόλαβε πιστεύειν, δοκοῦντα.

See Horace's very amusing "Satire," i. ix., on such tiresome fellows.