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How One May Be Aware Of One’s Progress In Virtue
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[262] The well-known Cynic philosopher.
[263] Bergk. fr. 15. Compare Homer, “Iliad,” vi. 339. [Greek: nike d’ epameibetai andras].
[264] We are told by Diogenes Laeertius, v. 37, that Theophrastus had 2000 hearers sometimes at once.
[265] “Republic,” vii. p. 539, B.
[266] Sentences borrowed from some author or other, such, as we still possess from the hands of Hermogenes and Aphthonius; compare the collection of bon-mots of Greek courtesans in Athenaeus.
[267] A reference to AEsop’s Fable, [Greek: Leon kai Halopez]. Cf. Horace, “Epistles,” i. i. 73-75.
[268] This passage is alluded to also in “On Love to one’s Offspring.” Sec. ii.
[269] Madvig’s text.
[270] Thucydides, i. 18.
[271] Homer, “Iliad,” ix. 323, 324. Quoted also in “On Love to One’s Offspring,” Sec. ii.
[272] The remark about Demosthenes has somehow slipped out, as Wyttenbach has suggested.
[273] Does this refer to [Greek: Peleiadeo] before [Greek: Hachileos] in “Iliad,” i. 1?
[274] An allusion to some passage in a Play that has not come down to us.
[275] Compare our Author, De Audiendis Poetis, Sec. xi. [Greek: hosper ho Agesilaos ouk hypemeinen hypo tou kalou philethenai prosiontos].
[276] Reading with Madvig and Hercher, [Greek: to gar auton], sq.
[277] Literally cork-like, so vain, empty. So Horace, “levior cortice,” “Odes,” iii. 9, 22.
[278] Marks of a philosopher among the ancients. Compare our Author, “How one may discern a flatterer from a friend,” Sec. vii.
[279] “Odyssey,” xvi. 187.
[280] AEschylus, “Toxotides,” Fragm. 224. Quoted again by our author, “On Love,” Sec. xxi.
[281] “Turpe habitum fuisse in caupona conspici, et hoc exemplo apparet, et alia sunt indicia. Isocrates Orat. Areopagitica laudans antiquorum Atheniensium mores, p. 257: [Greek: en kapeleio de phagein e piein oudeis han oiketes epieikes etolmese]: quem locum citans Athenaeus alia etiam adfert xiii. p. 566, F.”– Wyttenbach.
[282] Wyttenbach compares Quintilian, “Institut. Orat.” iii. 6, p. 255: “Nam et Hippocrates clarus arte medicinae videtur honestissime fecisse, qui quosdam errores suos, ne posteri errarent, confessus est.”
[283] Homer, “Odyssey,” vi. 187.
[284] Homer, “Odyssey,” xxiv. 402.
[285] Plato, “Republic,” ix. p. 571, D.
[286] A somewhat similar story about Stilpo is told in Athenaeus, x. p. 423, D.
[287] So Haupt and Herscher very ingeniously for [Greek: hiereusin].
[288] Adopting the suggestion of Wyttenbach as to the reading. The Dorian measure was grave and severe, the Lydian soft and effeminate.
[289] See our author, “Apophthegmata Laconica,” p. 220 C.
[290] Plato, “Symposium,” p. 25, E.
[291] This line is quoted again by our author, “On Moral Virtue,” Sec. vii.
[292] Plato, “Laws,” iv. p. 711, E.
[293] See those splendid lines of Lucretius, iv. 1155-1169.
[294] “Res valde celebrata ex Institutione Cyri Xenophontea, v. 1, 2; vi. 1, 17.”– Wyttenbach.
[295] This line is very like a Fragment in the “Danae” of Euripides. Dind. (328).
[296] On these see Pausanias, v. 7.
[297] Such as Homer could have brought. Compare Horace, “Odes,” iv. ix. 25-28; and Cicero, “pro Archia,” x. “Magnus ille Alexander–cum in Sigeo ad Achillis tumulum adstitisset, O fortunate, inquit, adolescens, qui tuae virtutis Homerum praeconem inveneris.”
[298] Contrary to Hesiod’s saw, “Works and Days,” 361, 362.
[299] So Juvenal, xiv. 138-140.
[300] Like Horace’s “Non si male nunc, et olim Sic erit.” “Odes,” ii. x. 16, 17.
[301] Noblesse oblige in fact.
[302] Pindar, Frag. 206.
[303] Like Horace’s factus ad unguem, because the sculptor tries its polish and the niceness of the joints by drawing his nail over the surface. Casaub. Pers. i. 64; Horace, “Sat.” i. v. 32, 33; A. P. 294; Erasmus, “Adagia,” p. 507.