Herodotus says, "Mother and father being no more, I shall not have another brother." In addition to these, Theopompus having written:--
"Twice children are old men in very truth;"
And before him Sophocles in Peleus:--
"Peleus, the son of AEacus, I, sole housekeeper,
Guide, old as he is now, and train again,
For the aged man is once again a child,"--
Antipho the orator says, "For the nursing of the old is like the nursing of children." Also the philosopher Plato says, "The old man then, as seems, will be twice a child." Further, Thucydides having said, "We alone bore the brunt at Marathon," [3229] --Demosthenes said, "By those who bore the brunt at Marathon." Nor will I omit the following. Cratinus having said in the Pytine: [3230] --
"The preparation perchance you know,"
[3229] Instead of Marathonitai, as in the text, we read from Thucydides Marathoni te.
[3230] Putine (not, as in the text, Poitine), a flask covered with plaited osiers. The name of a comedy by Cratinus (Liddell and Scott's Lexicon).
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