"Olynth.," i. 23.
The whole of this essay reminds one of the well-known lines of Juvenal, twice repeated—namely, x. 365, 366; and xiv. 315, 316:— "Nullum numen habes, si sit prudentia; nos te, Nos facimus, Fortuna, deam caeloque locamus."
Additional notes
Homer, "Iliad," xvii. 446, 447.
ὀπώρα is so used also in Æsch. "Suppl.," 998, 1015. See also "Athenæus," 608, F. Daphnæus implies these very nice gentlemen, like the same class described by Juvenal, "Curios simulant et Bacchanalia vivunt."
"Works and Days," 606-608.
Euripides, "Bacchae," 203.
Euripides, Fragment of the "Melanippe."
This line is taken bodily by Aristophanes in his "Frogs," 1244.
The first line is the first line of a passage from Euripides, consisting of thirteen lines, containing similar sentiments to this. See Athenæus, xiii. p. 599, F. The last two lines are from Euripides, "Hippolytus," 449, 450.