Or apophthegms, of which Plutarch and Lord Verulam have both left us collections.

Thucydides, ii. 40. Pericles is the speaker.

"Zenonis discipulus."—Reiske.

"Works and Days," 371.

Cf. Shakspere, "Hamlet," i. iii. 76.

Our "Set a thief to catch a thief."