165. Il. 15, 189.
166. Tim. 31 A, 55 C.
167. Reading, with Madvig (partly anticipated by Emperius) ... ὃ μὴ κοινῶς ποιὸν ἢ ἰδίως ἐστίν· ὁ δὲ κόσμος οὐ λέγεται κοινῶς εἶναι ποιός· ἰδίως τοίνυν ...
168. See e. g. De Caelo, 1, 6, 275 b 29, and Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy, p. 397 note; see also p. 270 foll.
169. Inserting κάτω, with Meziriac.
170. Il. 13, 1 foll.
172. Tim. 55 E, foll.
173. There is a play on the words for ‘fire’, ‘Pyramid’.
174. Soph. 249 B.
175. Is. et Osir. c. 12.
176. De Caelo, 2, 4, 286 b 10.
177. Tim. 55 C.
178. Tim. 57 C.
179. Tim. 52 E.
180. Fr. 925.
182. W. and D. 124.
183. W. and D. 122.
184. μᾶλλον δὲ ὄντα. Cp. Plato, Philebus, 33, διὰ μνήμης πᾶν ἔστι τὸ γεγονός.
185. See Thuc. 1, 12.
186. Fr. 963.
187. Bacchae, 297-8.
188. Fr. 75.
189. The text is corrupt, but probably contained ὁμίχλην. Cp. Plato, Sympos. 736 A.
190. Theogon. 117.
191. Fr. 371.
192. Meteor. 1, 3, 340 b 29.
193. Cyclops, I. 332-3 (Shelley’s tr.).
194. Phaedo, 97 C.
195. 1, 25, where the work is ascribed to Glaucus.
196. Od. 9, 393.
197. Rep. 6, 18, 507 C.
198. Cp. Plato, Laws, 716 E.
200. On the proverb ‘Post Lesbium Cantorem’.
201. i. e. in the battle of Amphipolis. See Thuc. 5, 10 and Plut. Life of Nicias, c. 9.
202. Orestes, 420.
203. 3, 38.
204. See Pausanias, 4, 17.
205. Fr. 969.
206. The author of this famous line is unknown.
207. Fr. 57.
208. Minos, 319 C.
209. No specific passage can be identified with the words in the text. For the sequel cp. Timaeus, 30 A.
210. Cp. Rep. 6, 508 A.
212. This line is a continuation of the quotation from Melanthius above.
213. Cp. Aesch. Cho. 313, &c.
214. Quoted several times as from Pindar (see Fr. 77), but perhaps rather Simonides.
215. Il. 15, 641.
216. Cp. Aristot. Poet. c. 9.
217. W. and D. 266, 265.
218. Laws, 5, 728 C.
219. i.e. under Roman law. See Smith’s Dict. Ant., s.v. Crux.
220. Rep. 406 B.
221. See H. Richards in Class. Rev. vol. 29, p. 235, and, for the quotation, the Life of Lucullus, c. 1.
222. Fr. 42, and see Jebb’s Introd. to the Electra of Sophocles.
223. See Life of Aristides, c. 6. also Dion Chrys. Orat. 64.
224. See Life of Cimon, c. 6.
225. Again quoted, De Curiosit. 520 A.
226. Eur. Ino, Fr. 403.
227. Fr. 970.
228. See Herod. 2, 134.
229. i. e. Polyphemus. See Od. 9, 375 foll.
230. See Herod. 66, 74, and Pausan. 4, 252, and 8, 18.
231. From an unknown poet; Euphorion and Arctinus are suggested.
232. Fr. 123.
233. Hence a proverb applied to what was second-rate.
234. Arist. H. A. 9, 3, 610 b 29.
235. See Thuc. 2, 48; also Plague and Pestilence in Literature and Art, by Raymond Crawfurd, M.D., chap. 2 and Appendix.
236. Cp. Plato, Laws, 4, 715 A.
237. Fr. 41.
238. Il. 6, 146.
239. Fr. 211.
240. W. and D. 735-6.
241. Eur. Fr. 970.
242. I have transposed the verbs as suggested in Wyttenbach’s Commentary.
243. Cp. Dante, Purg. 3, 19 foll. The idea is Pythagorean (see Quaest. Graec. 40, p. 300).
244. Cp. Plato, Gorg. 524 D.
245. See H. Richards in Class. Rev., vol. 29, p. 236.
246. Cp. p. 215, n. 1.
247. Cp. p. 89.
248. Probably a Sibylline verse. See Suetonius, Life of Vespasian.
249. Reading ἅτε δή with C. F. Hermann.
250. Cp. Aristot. Hist. Anim. 2, 14, 505 b 13, and 10, 37, 621 a 6.
251. Where it is ascribed to Themistius. It was reclaimed for Plutarch by Wyttenbach in the Preface to his edition of the De Sera Numinum Vindicta—Leiden 1772.
252. In the Dialogue (Ne suaviter quidem, c. 26) in which the Epicureans are attacked, the ‘hope of eternal existence’ or ‘desire to be’, is spoken of as the ‘oldest and greatest of loves’.
253. θάνατος—ἀναθεῖν εἰς θεόν.
254. γένεσις—γῆ, νεῦσις. Cp. p. 210, l. 6.
255. γενέθλιον—γένεσις ἄθλων.
256. Reading ἂν δὲ ἔρῃ, καὶ σώματος for ἂν δὲ ἔρημαι σώματος. See the Lex.-Plat. s.v. ἔρομαι.
257. e.g. Od. 1, 423.
258. τελευτᾶν—τελεῖσθαι.
259. Od. 12, 432 foll.
260. W. and D. 42.
261. Fr. 122.
262. Polybius (6, 56) points to ‘Deisidaimonia’ as the force which has held the Roman Commonwealth together, and kept the Romans honest.
263. See Nauck, p. 910 (Hercules speaks).
264. δεῖμα—δέω: τάρβος—ταράσσω.
265. Cf. Aristot. Eth. Nic. 3, 7.
266. Eur. Or. 211-12.
267. Nauck, p. 910, Fragm. 375 (probably from Aeschylus).
268. Eur. Tro. 759.
269. Meineke 4, p. 670.
270. Fr. 95.
271. Nauck, Fragm. adespota, 376.
272. Dem. de Cor., s. 97.
273. A difficult passage. I follow W.’s suggested restoration.
274. Tim. 47 C, &c.
275. Pyth. 1, 25.
276. Or perhaps ‘that which knows no wrath’.
277. Fr. 143, quoted twice elsewhere by Plutarch.
278. Pythag. Carm. Aur. 42.
279. See Life of T. Q. Flamin. c. 20.
280. Life of Nicias, c. 23. Thuc. 7, 50, 86.
282. Archilochus, Fr. 54, Bergk.
283. Nauck, Fragm. adespota, 377.
284. W. and D. 465 foll.
285. Il. 7, 193 foll.
286. Il. 2, 382, 414.
287. 1 Maccab. 2, 32 foll.
288. Soph. O. T. 4.
290. In the main from Wyttenbach’s reconstruction of this desperate passage.
291. Il. 24, 604.
292. Il. 24, 212.
293. Cp. Menander, Fragm. of Demiurgus, Meineke 4, p. 102.
294. Soph. Ant. 291.
295. Il. 22, 20.
296. Plat. Tim. 40 E.
297. See Strabo, 4, c. 4.
298. Cp. p. 183.
299. Herod. 7, 114.
300. Crat. 403 A, 404 B.
301. Cp. Arist. Rhet. 2, 23, 27, 1400 b 5, where the Eleatae are named.
302. In c. 22 Apollonides is made to state the angular diameter of the moon at 12 ‘fingers’, i. e. one degree.
305. Arist. Probl. 12, 3.
307. See Aristarchus, Magnitudes and Distances, Hypothesis 2.
308. See the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, 99-100, where the moon is the daughter of Pallas (‘the Pallantean orb sublime’, Shelley), cp. p. 294.
309. As Homer, Od. 23, 330; 24, 539; Hesiod, Theog. 515.
310. e. g. Il. 10, 394. Cp. Heraclides Ponticus, 15.
311. P. V. 349.
312. Fr. 88.
313. W. reads μένειν (E has κινεῖν), but renders by ‘cieri’.
314. Fr. 733.
316. Professor Henry Jackson has pointed out that the words form a hexameter line. For the Greek word see p. 291. Its introduction here is due to M. Bernardakis.
317. Reading τῇ γῇ, with Madvig.
319. αἰρομένη MSS.
320. Prop. 7.
322. Cf. Il. 9, 63.
323. Reading ὅλως (Emperius, ap. Ed. Teub.), for ὅμως.
325. See e. g. Tim. 32 C.
326. Theog. 120, 195.
328. Reading ἕξει, with Emperius.
330. Reading ᾀἱδίου, with Emperius.
331. Ion Chius, Fr. 57 (Nauck).
332. Reading διίησιν, with Madvig.
333. I have followed the paraphrase of the Greek words suggested by Wyttenbach. For the physical facts see Ganot’s Physics, 516.
334. Timaeus, 46 A-C (Plato does not discuss plane folding mirrors).
335. Reading χωρεῖν for χωροῦντες.
336. Kepler has supplied such a diagram (in his translation, p. 131).