FOOTNOTES:
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius and Yonge, Charles Duke
29 Menœceus was son of Creon, and in the war of the Argives against Thebes, Teresias declared that the Thebans should conquer if Menœceus would sacrifice himself for his country; and accordingly he killed himself outside the gates of Thebes.
30 The Greek is,
μήδε μοι ἄκλαυστος θάνατος μόλοι, ἀλλὰ φίλοισι
ποιήσαιμι θανὼν ἄλγεα καὶ στοναχάς.
31 Soph. Trach. 1047.
32 The lines quoted by Cicero here appear to have come from the Latin play of Prometheus by Accius; the ideas are borrowed, rather than translated, from the Prometheus of Æschylus.
33 From exerceo.
34 Each soldier carried a stake, to help form a palisade in front of the camp.
35 Insania—from in, a particle of negative force in composition, and sanus, healthy, sound.
36 The man who first received this surname was L. Calpurnius Piso, who was consul, 133 b.c., in the Servile War.
37 The Greek is,
Ἀλλά μοι οἰδάνεται κραδίη χόλῳ ὅπποτ’ ἐκείνου
Μνήσομαι ὅς μ’ ἀσύφηλον ἐν Ἀργείοισιν ἔρεξεν.—Il. ix. 642.
I have given Pope’s translation in the text.
38 This is from the Theseus:
Ἐγὼ δὲ τοῦτο παρὰ σοφοῦ τινος μαθὼν
εὶς φροντίδας νοῦν συμφοράς τ’ ἐβαλλόμην
φυγάς τ’ ἐμαυτῷ προστιθεὶς πάτρας ἐμῆς.
θανάτους τ’ ἀώρους, καὶ κακῶν ἄλλας ὁδοὺς
ὡς, εἴ τι πάσχοιμ’ ὠν ἐδόξαζόν ποτε
Μή μοι νέορτον προσπεσὸν μᾶλλον δάκοι.
39 Ter. Phorm. II. i. 11.
40 This refers to the speech of Agamemnon in Euripides, in the Iphigenia in Aulis,
Ζηλῶ σε, γέρον,
ζηλῶ δ’ ἀνδρῶν ὃς ἀκίνδυνον
βίον ἐξεπέρασ’, ἀγνὼς, ἀκλεής.—v. 15.
41 This is a fragment from the Hypsipyle:
Εφυ μὲν οὐδεὶς ὅστις οὐ πονεῖ βροτῶν
θάπτει τε τέκνα χἄτερ’ αὖ κτᾶται νεὰ,
αὐτός τε θνήσκει. καὶ τάδ’ ἄχθονται βροτοὶ
εἰς γῆν φέροντες γῆν ἀναγκαίως δ’ ἔχει
βίον θερίζειν ὥστε κάρπιμον στάχυν.
42
Πολλὰς ἐκ κεφαλῆς προθελύμνους ἕλκετο χαίτας.—Il. x. 15.
43
Ἤτοι ὁ καππέδιον τὸ Ἀληΐον οἶος ἀλᾶτο
ὅν θυμὸν κατεδὼν, πάτον ἀνθρώπων ἀλεείνων.—Il. vi. 201.
44 This is a translation from Euripides:
Ὥσθ’ ἵμερος μ’ ὑπῆλθε γῇ τε κ’ οὐρανῷ
λέξαι μολούσῃ δεῦρο Μηδείας τύχας.—Med. 57.