Compare Lucian's ἐχεγλωττία, after ἐχεχειρία (armistice), Lexiph. 9.

See the story in Homer, "Iliad," vi. 155 sq.

Or self-control.

Literally, some woman shut up, or enclosed.

See also our author's "On those who are punished by the Deity late," § xi.

Plutarch rather reminds one, in his evident contempt for Epitaphs, of the cynic who asked, "Where are all the bad people buried?" Where indeed?

euphronê, a stock phrase for night, is here defined.

"Historia exstat initio libri quinti Cyropædiæ."—Reiske.

Literally, "slippery and prone to." For the metaphor of "slippery" compare Horace, "Odes," i. 19-8, "Et vultus nimium lubricus adspici."

Literally, ears.

The paronomasia is as follows. The word for impious people is supposed to mean listeners to mills grinding.