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his guests

by handing

them an

empty

plate, in

the hope

of

something

appearing

upon it.

And commas

used for a

similar

purpose

belong to

the same

family as

notes at

the foot

of the

page and

parenthesis

in the

middle of

the text;

nay, all

three

differ

only in

degree. If

Demosthenes

and Cicero

occasionally

inserted

words by

ways of

parenthesis,

they would

have done

better to

have

refrained.

7Translator’s

Note. —

This

sentence

in the

original

is

obviously