conversing." When Adrian became emperor, the affront was remembered, and
it prevented Apollodorus from being employed. Nor was the opinion which
Apollodorus gave with respect to the plans of a sumptuous temple of
Venus forgotten: viz.--upon seeing the statues sitting, as they were,
in the temple (which, it seems, wanted much of its due proportion in
height), he said, "if the goddesses should ever attempt to stand upon
their feet, they would assuredly break their heads against the ceiling."
Adrian, meanly jealous and inexcusably revengeful, banished the
architect, and having caused him to be accused of various crimes, put
him to death.

P.T.W.

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Juan Rufa said--"There are two classes of persons who are inconsolable,
the rich on the point of death, and women on the departure of their
beauty." He said, on another occasion, "that he who defined a compliment
to be an agreeable falsehood, which serves as a net to catch dupes, was
not far short of the truth, since the greater part of compliments are
expressions directly at variance with internal conviction."

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Dice are said to have been invented by Palamedes, at the siege of Troy,
for the amusement of the soldiers.

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