Homer, "Odyssey," vi. 183, 184. Cf. Eurip. "Medea," 14, 15.

Homer, "Iliad," xiv. 205, 209.

Euripides, "Andromache," 930.

From the words of Andromache to Hector, "Iliad," vi. 429, 430.

Homeric Epigrammata, xiii. 5.

Wyttenbach thinks these lines are by Menander. Plutarch quotes them again "On Contentedness of Mind," § xi.