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On Contentedness Of Mind
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Footnotes:
[711] Or cheerfulness, or tranquillity of mind. Jeremy Taylor has largely borrowed again from this treatise in his “Holy Living,” ch. ii. Sec. 6, “Of Contentedness in all Estates and Accidents.”
[712] Reading with Salmasius [Greek: kaltios patrikios].
[713] “Locus Xenophontis est Cyropaed.,” l. i. p. 52.– Reiske.
[714] Euripides, “Orestes,” 258.
[715] So Wyttenbach, Duebner. Vulgo [Greek: anaisthesias–aponia.]
[716] “Works and Days,” 519.
[717] “Odyssey,” i. 191, 192.
[718] I read [Greek: katepheian].
[719] “Iliad,” i. 488-492.
[720] “Iliad,” xviii. 104.
[721] Euripides, “Orestes,” 232.
[722] Homer, “Iliad,” x. 88, 89.
[723] The story of Phaeethon is a very well-known one, and is recorded very fully by Ovid in the “Metamorphoses,” Book ii.
[724] Euripides, “Bellerophon.” Fragm. 298.
[725] Supplying [Greek: phyton] with Reiske.
[726] In Cyprus. Zeno was the founder of the Stoics.
[727] Zeno and his successors taught in the Piazza at Athens called the Painted Piazza. See Pausanias, i. 15.
[728] Pindar, Nem. iv. 6.
[729] Euripides, “Bacchae,” 66.
[730] Quoted again by our author “On Restraining Anger,” Sec. xvi.
[731] As will be seen, I follow Wyttenbach’s guidance in this very corrupt passage, which is a true crux.
[732] Reading [Greek: dedorkotes].
[733] See “On Curiosity,” Sec. i.
[734] Simonides.
[735] See Herodotus, vii. 56.
[736] A mina was 100 drachmae ( i.e. L4. 1 s. 3 d. ), and 600 obols.
[737] A slave’s ordinary dress.
[738] One of the Seven Wise Men.
[739] Homer, “Iliad,” iii. 182.
[740] Homer, “Iliad,” ii. 111.
[741] Words of Agamemnon to the House Porter. Euripides, “Iphigenia in Aulis,” 17-19.
[742] “Iliad,” xviii. 105, 106.
[743] See Pausanias, x. 24.
[744] Pindar, Fragm., 258. Quoted “On Moral Virtue,” Sec. xii.
[745] Homer, “Iliad,” xvii. 61; “Odyssey,” vi. 130.
[746] A famous breed of dogs from the island Melita, near Dalmatia. See Pliny, “Hist. Nat.,” iii. 26, extr. Sec. 30; xxx. 5, extr. Sec. 14.
[747] That Non omnia possumus omnes.
[748] Pindar, “Isthm.,” i. 65-70.
[749] Hesiod, “Works and Days,” 25. Our “two of a trade seldom agree.”
[750] An allusion to “Iliad,” xxiv. 527-533.
[751] Ocnus. See Pausanias, x. 29.
[752] So Wyttenbach, who reads [Greek: Hos de touton].
[753] Reading [Greek: oia] with Reiske.
[754] Homer to wit.
[755] The soul.
[756] The reading here is rather doubtful. That I have adopted is Reiske’s and Wyttenbach’s.
[757] “Iliad,” v. 484.
[758] Euripides, “Bacchae,” 498. Compare Horace, “Epistles,” i. xvi. 78, 79.
[759] Reading with Duebner [Greek: argian]. Reiske has [Greek: atonian].
[760] Euripides, “Orestes,” 396.
[761] The Saturnalia (as the Romans called this feast) was well known as a festival of merriment and license.