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ὁμιλίαι: cf. Menander in 1 Corinth. xv. 33 φθείρουσιν ἤθη χρῆσθ̓ ὁμιλίαι κακαί, and especially Aesch. Pers. 753ταῦτα τοῖς κακοῖς ὁμιλῶν ἀνδράσιν διδάσκεται θούριος Ξέρξης”.

φύσι τῇ ἑωυτῆς χρᾶσθαι: paraphrased by Polyb. xi. 29 μὲν ἰδία φύσις ἐστιν ἀβλαβὴς καὶ στάσιμος. So Liv. xxviii. 27 ‘sicut natura maris per se immobilis est’. This simile, called by Livy (xxxviii. 10) a vulgata similitudo for the passion of the mob, is first found in Solon, fr. 12 ἐξ ἀνέμων δὲ θάλασσα ταράσσεται: ἢν δέ τις αὐτὴν μὴ κινῇ, πάντων ἐστὶ δικαιοτάτη.

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