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FUNDANUS. Just as, then, someone said of Philip Cf. Moralia, 40 e, 215 b. For the thought see Pindar, Pythian Odes, iv. 484. when he had razed Olynthus to the ground, But he could not possibly repeople a city so large, so one may address Anger and say, You are able to overturn and destroy and throw down, but to raise up and preserve and spare and forbear is the work of mildness and forgiveness and moderation in passion, the work of a Camillus or a MetellusPlutarch probably means Q. Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus; cf. Moralia, 202 a. or an Aristeides or a Socrates; but to attach oneself to the wound and to sting is the part of an ant or a horse-fly. Cf. Seneca, De Ira, ii. 34. 1; Cf. Socrates’ comparison of himself to a gad-fly in Apology, 30 e. As I study, however, anger’s method of defending itself, I find it for the most part ineffectual, since it spends itself in biting the lips Cf. Seneca, De Ira, i. 19. 2-3. and gnashing the teeth, in vain attacks and railings coupled with senseless threats, and eventually resembles children Cf. 447 a, supra. running races, who, through lack of self-control, fall down ridiculously before they reach the goal toward which they are hastening. Therefore there was point in what the Rhodian said to the Roman general’s servant who was shouting and talking insolently: What you say, said the Rhodian, matters nothing to me, but what your master doesn’t say. And Sophocles,Frag. 210. 8, 9, ed. Pearson, vol. i. pp. 152 ff., where see he careful discussion of the relation of this passage to Ox. Pap., ix. 1175; Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag. 2, Sophocles, Frag. 768. when he has armed Neoptolemus and Eurypylus, says Without a vaunt, without reviling, they Have rushed within the ring of brazen arms.
