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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt:...Py. V 28; Nem. IX 52; Fr. 40 (IS)'; 107 (74); jEsch. Prom. 727; Sept. 225; 494; Ag. 404-5. Cf. Pind. 0l. IX 97. Cf. Theog. 940-54 for other images expressing the same idea. whether xtap is adjective or noun.8 For cunning the fox, dXwxr;5, is used in Sol. 9. 10. (19) though the reference belongs more properly to fables; cf. Arch. 81 (67). the fig-tree is the emblem of worthlessness, Hipp. 66c (80).8 The flower is now first applied to the beauty of the complexion, Sol. 27 (3) 6;7 a use of flowers strange to our modern taste, in image clearly felt because sustained, is found in Sol. 2 (13) 36, of the withering flowers of Ate; even destruction and ruin may have flowers.8 An image of the tree standing firm from bottom to top, mOiinqv and xopu, for abiding wealth (image may be from a column) is found in Sol. 12 (4) 10. One who stands between the people and their despoilers is a boundary-stone, open;, Sol. 32b.9 The goad, xevtpov, for instigation, now appears, Sol. 32, 20. As snow and hail and thunder come from the cloud and lightning, so from great men comes the power that destroys cities, Sol. 7 (17) (paratactic simile). The source, as shown by the repeated ex, is the point of the comparison. We may have in Sol. 11 (17) in the sea that is fairest of all unless disturbed by the winds, an image for a character that is reliable only while unruffled by the storms of adversity. The goal of wealth, Sol. 12 (4) 71 (slight). xa"vo? gaping for unsubstantial, Sol. 9. 10. (19); 30. 31. Smoothing the rough for making easy, Sol. 2 (13) 35. The horn of Amalthea for plenty, more properly myth, Phoc. 5. 'See Sandys' Aristotle's Constitution of Athens, 1912, 49 and Journ. Phil. XXIV 256. Cf. Theocr. X 45 and Hor. Sat. I 8, 1. 'Cf. Theog. 451-2; Mxh. Prom. 23. Cf. also the e...