9. Affairs.

10. The pleasure felt from seeing a play.

11. No one is inquisitive without being malevolent as well (Plautus, Stichus, I.3.54).

12. Distance in social rank.

13. Defects.

14. Striving after.

15. As was the case with.

16. Narses was the Byzantine general who defeated the Goths and governed Italy until A.D.567. Agesilaus, king of Sparta from 398 to 361 B.C.,inflicted heavy defeats on the Persians. Tamerlane, or Timur the Lame, d. 1405, conquered huge areas of Asia.

17. Hadrian, Roman emperor from 117 to 138, is said to have designed a temple and then banished an architect who dared to criticize his plans.

18. Disposition.