To Thestor’s Son[1] inquisitive about the Causes of Things
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Homer and Chapman, George
Thestorides! of all the skills unknown To errant mortals, there remains not one Of more inscrutable affair to find Than is the true state of a human mind.
Source notes
[1] Homer intimated, in this his answer to Thestorides, a will to have him learn the knowledge of himself, before he inquired so curiously the causes of other things. And from hence had the great peripatetic, Themistius, his most grave epiphoneme, Anima quæ seipsam ignorat, quid sciret ipsa de aliis? And, therefore, according to Aristotle, advises all philosophical students to begin with that study.