[376] As to the polypus, see "On Abundance of Friends," § ix.
[377] As "Fumum et opes _strepitumque_ Romæ."--Horace, "Odes," iii. 29. 12.
[380] As to these traits in Plato and Aristotle, compare "De Audiendis Poetis," § viii. And as to Alexander, Plutarch tells us in his Life that he used to hold his head a little to the left, "Life," p. 666 B. See also "De Alexandri Fortuna aut Virtute," § ii.
[381] "De Chamæleonte Aristoteles 'Hist. Animal.' i. 11; 'Part. Animal.' iv. 11; Theophrastus Eclog. ap. Photium edit. Aristot. Sylburg. T. viii. p. 329: [Greek: metaballei de ho chamaileôn eis panta ta chrômata; plên ten eis to leukon kai to eruthron ou dechetai metabolên.] Similiter Plinius 'Hist. Nat.' viii. 51."--_Wyttenbach._
[383] Cf. Juv. iii. 113; "Scire volunt secreta domus, atque inde timeri."
[384] Cf. Menander apud Stob. p. 437: [Greek: Ta deuter aiei tên gynaika dei legein, Tên d' êgemonian tôn olôn ton andr' echein].
[385] As Lord Stowell used to say that "dinners lubricated business."
[388] Perhaps the poley-germander. See Pliny, "Nat. Hist," xxi. 84. The line is from Nicander Theriac. 64.
[392] Xenophon, "Agesilaus," xi. 5. p. 673 C.
[393] To filch the grain from the bin or granary would not of course be so important a theft as to steal the seed-stock preserved for sowing. So probably Cato, "De Re Rustica," v. § iv.: "Segetem ne defrudet," sc. villicus.
[395] Plato, "Republic," v. p. 474 E. Compare also Lucretius, iv. 1160-1170; Horace, "Satires," i. 3. 38 sq.
[396] This Ptolemy was a votary of Cybele, and a spiritual ancestor of General Booth. The worship of Cybele is well described by Lucretius, ii. 598-643.
[397] This was Ptolemy Auletes, as the former was Ptolemy Philopator.
[399] "Plerumque _minuta voce cantillare_."--_Wyttenbach._ What Milton would have called "a lean and flashy song."
[400] Naso suspendit adunco, as Horace, "Sat." i. 6. 5.
[402] As Gnatho in Terence, "Eunuch." 496-498.
[403] Reading [Greek: Helôn], as Courier, Hercher.
[404] "Iliad," x. 249. They are words of Odysseus.
[405] This was carrying flattery rather far. "Mithridatis medicinæ scientia multis memorata veterum."--_Wyttenbach._
[407] Our author gives this definition to Simonides, "De Gloria Atheniensium," § iii.