repeated victories which they had gained over the Persians, had rendered them, says Plutarch, proud and insolent. Intoxicated with their prosperity, they arrogated all its glory to themselves; they were jealous of those citizens whose political and military talents were the subjects of public eulogium. They thought the glory acquired by great men diminished their own reputation. An Athenian no sooner distinguished himself by a splendid action, than he was marked out as a victim by public envy. His reputation was a sufficient reason for his banishment.

in natural history, a name used for the foetile oysters, common in many parts of England. They are of various shapes and kinds; and the name is by some authors made to signify the shell itself, when preserved in its native state and condition; as is the case with those about Woolwich and Blackheath; and by others, the stones cast or formed in those shells, or in cavities from whence they have been washed away and dissolved: in both these cases the stone carries the exact resemblance of the shell, even in its nicest lineaments; in the first case, bearing every mark of the inside, in the other of the outer surface. We have this stone in great plenty in many parts of England; and it is very famous, in some places, for its virtues in cases of the gravel, and the like complaints.