Note 85 — Chapter XXVIII · THE STORY OF THE TRIAL.
Reading edition
The lines from Hesiod:
“No labor mars an honest name; ’Tis only Idleness is shame,”
was one instance (quoted by Xenophon in the Recollections of Socrates). Another (from the same source) is the story of how Ulysses stayed the Greeks from hurrying to their ships and leaving the siege of Troy. The common men he struck, but if he found a chief in the crowd he only remonstrated with him,
“But if he saw perchance, some common man Blinded with panic, clamorous of tongue, With staff he smote him, adding blow to blame.”