Volume I Part 9 (1/2)

XIV. METELLUS ON MARRIAGE.

The woordes of Metellus of mariage, and wiuing with the prayse and dispraise of the same.

[_Source._--Aulus Gellius, _Noct. Att._ i. 6.

_Origin._--Livy, ii. 32.

_Parallels._--I. _Ancient_: Plut. _Coriol._ 6. Dio. Halic. vi. 76.

_Painter_, I. i. 36; II. i. 24; III. i. 60; IV. i. 74.]

XV. LAIS AND DEMOSTHENES.

Of Lais and Demosthenes.

[_Source and Origin._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ i. 8.

_Parallels._--Repeated in Painter II. xiii.

_Painter_, I. i. 38; II. i. 35; III. i. 63; IV. i. 77.]

XVI. FABRICIUS AND PYRRHUS.

C. Fabritius and Emillius Consuls of Rome, beyng promised that king Pyrrhus for a somme of money should be slayne (which was a notable enemie to the Romaine state) aduertised Pyrrhus thereof by letters, and of other notable thinges doen by the same Fabritius.

[_Source._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ i. 14.

_Origin._--(?) Livy, _Epit._ xiii.

_Parallels._--I. _Ancient_: Plutarch _Pyrr._ 18, 19; _An seni sit_, &c., 21; Cicero, _Pro Cl._, 14, 24; _Brut._ 14, 55; 16, 61; _Phil._ i. 5, 11; _Cato_, vi. 16; Val. Max., viii. 13, 5; Sueton. _Tib._, 2; Justin, 18, 2; Ovid, _Fasti_, xvi. 203.

_Painter_, I. i. 38; II. i. 36; III. i. 64; IV. i. 78.]

XVII. CAMILLUS AND SCHOOLMASTER.

A Scholemaister traiterously rendring the n.o.ble mens sonnes of Faleria to the hands of Camillus, was wel acquited and rewarded for his paines and labour.

[_Source._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ xvii. 24.

_Origin._--Livy, v. 26.

_Parallels._--I. _Ancient_: Plutarch, _Camillus_, 10; Dion. Halic.

excerp. Vatec. 13, 1; Frontinus, _Strat._ iv. 4, 1; Polyaenus, _Strat._ viii. 7; Val. Max. vi. 5, 1; Aur. Victor, _De vir. ill._ 33; Zonar. vii. 32. II. _Modern_: _Enxemplos_, 187. III. _Modern_: Gallensis, _Commumilog._ 1489, i. 11; H. Sachs, III. ii. 46; Hanmer, _Hist. Roseng._ 1654, 437; _Acerra_, i. 100; Kirch, i. 18.

_Painter_, I. i. 39; II. i. 37; III. i. 66; IV. i. 80.]