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1. Plutarch (tr. Amyot), Dicts notables des Lacedaemoniens, 209F; also listed among Erasmus’ Spartan apophthegmata. Then, Plutarch, Life of Pericles.

2. Guillaume Postel, Histoire des Turcs; Quintilian, Institutiones, II.

3. Livy, X, xxii.

4. Juvenal, V, 123–4.

5. Terence, Adelphi, III, iii, 71–5.

6. Plutarch, Life of Paulus Aemilius.

7. In Amadis de Gaule, II.

8. Cf. the language of Montaigne’s title to Roman Citizenship cited in III, 9, ‘On vanity’.

9. But cf. the closing pages of III, 13, ‘On experience’.