Note 176 — LECTURE V. THE MORALITY OF PROVERBS.
Reading edition
Εὕδοντι κύρτος αἱρεῖ.—Dormienti rete trahit. The reader with a Plutarch’s Lives within his reach may turn to the very instructive little history told in connexion with this proverb, of Timotheus the Athenian commander; an history which only requires to be translated into Christian language to contain a deep moral for all. (Sulla, c. 6.)