106 ALCIUIADES AND CORIOLANUS.

self upon good tenns with all that he met ; Coriolanus's pride forbade him to pay attentions to those who could have promoted his advancement, and yet his love of dis- tinction made him feel hart and angry when he was dis- regarded. Such are the faulty parts of his character, which in all other respects was a noble one. For his temperance, continence, and probity, he might claim to be compared with the best and purest of the Greeks; not in any sort or kind with Alcibiades, the least scrupu- lous and most entirely careless of human beings in all these points.