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gluttony. If a man capture him and tempt his prey 

 by offering him food with his hand, he will take it 

 until the food shall be heaped up even" unto the 

 most gluttonous jaws of him. Hear, ye generations 

 of men, what manner of issue there is to gluttonous 

 folly, what pain follows upon excessive eating. Let 

 a man therefore drive far from heart and hand 

 idleness that dehghts in evil pleasure, and observe 

 measure in eating nor deUght in luxurious tables. 

 For many such there be among men who hold the 

 reins loose and allow all rope to their belly. But 

 let a man behold and avoid the end of the Day- 

 sleeper. 



Wit and cunning belong also to the prickly Urchins,'' 

 which know '^ when the violence of the wind and the 

 fierce storms are rising, and lift each of them upon 

 their backs a stone of such weight as they can easily 

 carry on their spines, that thus weighted they may 

 withstand the driving of the wave. For that is what 

 they most dread — lest the swelhng wave roll them 

 on the shore. 



No one, I think, is ignorant of the craft of the 



' Plut. Mor. 979 a exi-vov ye nva x* p'^'a'oi' SivyTjaaro irpo- 

 yvuffiv ' XpiaToriX-rji irvevfj.d.Twv (A. 6J3b4-; M'lrah. 831a 15; 

 Plin. viii. 133) . . . e^w 5' fx'''*"' fJ-iv ovSiva Kv^lktjvov rj 

 Bv^dvTiov dWa trdi/ras o/xov Trap^x^Mtti tovs daXarriovs, drav 

 atadwvTiXL n.iWovTa xf'A"^''a fat aaXov, ipfiaTL^ofievovs \i6iSiois, 

 OTTOJs /X7J irepiTpeirwvTat 5»d KoiKpoTr^ra /xTjd' diroa-vpuvTai yevojxfvov 

 kX'jSQvos, dX/V iirifievucnf apaporws tois irtrpioiois ; Plin. ix. 100 

 Ex eodem genere sunt echini . . . tradunt saevitiam maris 

 praesagire eos correptisque opperiri lapillis raobilitatem pou- 

 dere stabilientes. Cf. Ael. vii. 33 ; Phil. 64. 



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