CONJUGAL PRECEPTS.

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83 Probably the epilepsy. See Herodotus, iii. 33.
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85 Euripides, Fragment of the "Melanippe."
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86 I take Wyttenbach's suggestion as to the reading here.
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87 This line is taken bodily by Aristophanes in his "Frogs," 1244.
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88 The first line is the first line of a passage from Euripides, consisting of thirteen lines, containing similar sentiments to this. See Athenæus, xiii. p. 599, F. The last two lines are from Euripides, "Hippolytus," 449, 450.
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91 Euripides, "Danae," Frag. Compare Ovid, "Cedit amor rebus: res age, tutus eris."
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92 Sophocles, Fragm. 678, Dindorf. Compare a remark of Sophocles, recorded by Cicero, "De Senectute," ch. xiv.
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93 Sophocles, Fragm. 720. Reading καλὰ with Reiske.
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95 Connecting Ἄρῃς with ἀναιρεῖν.
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96 The Saint Hubert of the Middle Ages.
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101 All these four were titles of Zeus. They are very difficult to put into English so as to convey any distinctive and definite idea to an English reader.
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102 Enthusiasm is the being ἔνθεος, or inspired by some god.
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103 From Æschylus, "Supplices," 681, 682.
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105 Like the character described in Lucretius, ii. 1-6.
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106 Sophocles, "Trachiniae," 497. The Cyprian Queen is, of course, Aphrodite.
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107 Hence the famous Proverb, "Non omnibus dormio." See Cic. "Ad. Fam." vii. 24.
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109 See Sophocles, "Antigone," 783, 784. And compare Horace, "Odes," Book iv. Ode xiii. 6-8, "Ille virentis et Doctæ psallere Chiæ Pulchris excubat in genis."
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110 The "Niobe," which exists only in a few fragments.
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111 This was the name of Dionysius' Poem. He was a Corinthian poet.
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113 Reading according to the conjecture of Wyttenbach, ὡς τὸν Ἔρωτα υὁνον ἀήττητον ὄντα τῶν στρατηγῶν.
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114 Something has probably dropped out here, as Dübner suspects.
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115 Fragment from the "Sthenebœa" of Euripides.
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116 Anytus was one of the accusers of Socrates, and so one of the causers of his death. So Horace calls Socrates "Anyti reum," "Sat." ii. 4, 3.
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117 Homeric Epigrammata, xiii. 5. Quoted also in "On Virtue and Vice," § I.
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119 I adopt the suggestion of Wyttenbach, εἶπεν ῶ Δαφναῖε.
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121 See for example Homer, "Iliad," xi. 3, 73; ix. 502.
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122 Euripides, "Pirithous," Fragm. 591. Dindorf.

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Plutarch's Morals, Project Gutenberg eBook #23639

ON LOVE. PLUTARCH SENDS GREETING TO POLLIANUS AND EURYDICE.