[sc. A phrase] just like "beloved head".[1] From the leading part of the body, it means the [sc. whole] man, as in Homer: "Teucer, beloved head".[2] Also, "for such a head".[3] And in Demosthenes: "and these, o foul head".[4] And elsewhere: "o wretch and parricide and house-breaker!" And he answers: "say the same things of me again, and more. Do you know that I take pleasure in being much abused?".[5]
Aelian [writes][6]: "it is not right for a good man or a god to receive gifts from someone defiled. Therefore all the great labor that impious men spend upon the gods is in vain, but that of the pious is most profitable to them all". Plato says [this].[7]