man is blessed in himself, and blessed also are the auditors who can hear and receive the words that flow from his mouth.
Page 163.—Comparison. These with the young men, &c., is from the Andromache of Euripides, (597). She also, the young maid, on the next page, is referred by some to the Hermione, by some to the Reclaiming of Helen, both of them lost plays of Sophocles. It is the Fragment No. 791 in Dindorf.
Life of Solon, page 168.—Hand to hand as in the ring, literally, like a boxer, hand to hand, is from the Trachiniæ of Sophocles (441); the line just above is the eighth of the Bacchæ of Euripides.
Page 170.—Work is a shame to none, the shame is not to be working, is the 309th line of Hesiod's Works and Days.
Page 179.—Munychia was best known to the Athenians of Plutarch's time, as one of the strong-holds invariably occupied by the garrisons by which the kings of Macedon had controlled the city.
Page 188.—The Tragedy is probably the Philoctetes, one of the lost tragedies of Euripides. Plutarch quotes it more fully elsewhere: "What bride, what young virgin would accept thee? Truly," &c.
Page 193.—The end and the beginning of the month, occurs twice in the Odyssey (XIV. 162, XIX. 307).
Page 199.—For Homer's Ulysses, see the fourth book of the Odyssey (235–264), where Helen relates, at Sparta, to Telemachus and Nestor's son, how Ulysses entered Troy, as a spy, in the dress of a beggar, and was recognized by her alone, and returned after killing many and procuring much information.
Page 201.—Plato, on the mother's side, claimed relationship with Solon, so that in this way, the story of the Atlantis came with some title to him. See the Timæus, pp. 21 to 26.
Life of Themistocles, page 232.—The Lycomedæ or Lycomidæ were an ancient Attic priestly family. Phlya is one of the Attic demi or townships; and the record found in Simonides was probably an epigram inscribed in the chapel.
Page 240.—The two lines from Pindar are quoted by Plutarch in three other places; they are one of the Fragments of his lost and uncertain poems, (Boeckh, Fragment 96). Olizon is one of the places whose warriors, in Homer's Catalogue, (Iliad, II. 716–718), are led by Philoctetes,—" The dwellers in Methone and Thaumacia, and the inhabitants of Melibaea and rocky Olizon, these Philoctetes commanded, skilful with the bow."
Page 243.—The guides in the time of Pausanias showed figures in a colonnade in the market-place of Trœzen, which they said were the representations of these Athenian women and children, erected in remembrance of their stay in the town, (Pausanias, II. 31).
Page 247.—The verses are the 347th and following of the Persæ.
Page 249.—Simonides says it probably in an ode on the victory at Salamis, similar to those of which some fragments remain, on the battles of Artemesium and Thermopylæ. A few of the words—was ever known more glorious exploit on the seas, are pretty certainly a part of the original, but it is impossible to restore the verse.
