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 [4] Lais the Courtesan | The celebrated courtesan of Corinth who had real life relations with Aristippus for whom Lucian substitutes Diogenes, the founder of the Cynic School which held opposing beliefs to Aristippus.
-[5] Steep hill of Virtue | A reference to Hesiod //Works and Days// 286-292: “To you, foolish Perses, I will speak good sense. Badness can be got easily and in shoals; the road to her is smooth, and she lives very near us. But between us and Goodness [Virtue] the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; long and steep is the path that leads to her, and it is rough at the first; but when a man has reached the top, then is she easy to reach, though before that she was hard.”(( H H H H H H H Hesiod, , and Hugh G. Evelyn-White. //The Homeric Hymns: Homerica//. Cambridge (Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1914. Print.
+[5] Steep hill of Virtue | A reference to Hesiod //Works and Days// 286-292: “To you, foolish Perses, I will speak good sense. Badness can be got easily and in shoals; the road to her is smooth, and she lives very near us. But between us and Goodness [Virtue] the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; long and steep is the path that leads to her, and it is rough at the first; but when a man has reached the top, then is she easy to reach, though before that she was hard.”((Hesiod, and Hugh G. Evelyn-White. //The Homeric Hymns: Homerica//. Cambridge (Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1914. Print.
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