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."

Or strigil. See Otto Jahn's note on Persius, v. 126.

"Forsitan illa quam nominat Pausanias, i. 27."—Reiske.

Literally "want of tune in." We cannot well keep up the metaphor. Compare with this passage, "That virtue may be taught," § ii.

Literally "crowns."