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] to adduce a few instances from them. For Alcmæon of Crotona having said, "It is easier to guard against a man who is an enemy than a friend," Sophocles wrote in the Antigone:

And Xenophon said: "No man can injure enemies in any other way than by appearing to be a friend."

And Euripides having said in Telephus:

Thrasymachus, in the oration for the Larissseans, says: "Shall we be slaves to Archelaus—Greeks to a Barbarian?"

And Orpheus having said:

and Heraclitus, putting together the expressions from these lines, writes thus:

"It is death for souls to become water, and death for water to become earth; and from earth comes water, and from water soul."

And Athamas the Pythagorean having said, "Thus was produced the beginning of the universe; and there are four roots—fire, water, air, earth: for from these is the origination of what is produced,"—Empedocles of Agrigentum wrote:

And Plato having said, "Wherefore also the gods, knowing men, release sooner from life those they value most," Menander wrote:

And Euripides having written in the Œnomaus:

and in the Phœnix:

Hyperides says, "But we must investigate things unseen by learning from signs and probabilities." And Isocrates having