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Fabre d'Olivet, Antoine, Pythagoras, and Redfield, Nayán Louise
A la persévérance il n’est rien qui résiste:
Quelques soient ses desseins, si le Sage y persiste,
Nul obstacle si grand dont il ne vienne à bout:
La constance et le temps sont les maîtres de tout.
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[445]Vitâ Pythag.; Phot., Bibl. Cod., 259; Plato, In Tim.; Macrob., In Somn. Scip.; Virg., Æneid, l. vi., v. 724; Sevius, Comm., ibid.; Cicer., De Nat. Deor., l. i., c. 5, 11, 14, et 15; Diog. Laërt., In Zon.; Batteux, Causes premières, t. ii., p. 116; Beausob., Hist. du Manich., t. ii., l. vi., c. 6, § 14.
[446] Stanley, De Phil. Chald., p. 1123.
[447] Kircher, Ædip., t. i., p. 172, et t. ii., p. 200.
[448]Maimon., More Nevoch., i., part., c. 70.
[449] Salmas, Ann. Climat., Præf., p. 32.
[450] Homer, Odyss., K. v. 494; Diodor. Sic., l. v., c. 6; Plin., l. vii., c. 56; Plutar., De Oracul. Defect., p. 434.
[451]Horat., Sat., v., l. ii., v. 59.
[452]Hierocl., In Aurea Carm., v. 31.
[453]Alcibiad., i. et ii.; Lachès, etc.
[454]In Alcibiad., i.
[455]Voyez Burette, Mém. de l’Acad. des Belles-Lett., t. v.; Laborde, Essai sur la Musique, t. i., introd., p. 20.
Our painters have hardly treated Greek painting better; and perhaps if the Pythian Apollo and the Chaste Venus had not again astonished Europe, but had disappeared as did the masterpieces of Polygnotus and of Zeuxis, the modern sculptors would have said that the ancients failed as much in pattern as in colouring.
[456] Wood, Essai sur le Génie orig. d’Homère, p. 220.
[457] Bryant, cité par Desalles, Hist. d’Homère, p. 18.
[458] Wolf et Klotz, cités par le même. Ibid., p. 36 et 117.
[459] Paw, Recherches sur les Grecs, t. ii., p. 355.
[460] C’est un certain Grégoire, cité par Leo Allazi, dans son Livre de Patriâ Homeri.
Voltaire, Dict. philos., art. Epopée.
[461] The name of Pagan is an injurious and ignoble term derived from the Latin Paganus, which signifies a rustic, a peasant. When Christianity had entirely triumphed over Greek and Roman polytheism, and when by the order of the Emperor Theodosius, the last temple dedicated to the gods of the nations had been destroyed in the cities, it was found that the people in the country still persisted a considerable time in the ancient cult, which caused them and all their imitators to be called derisively Pagans. This appellation, which could suit the Greeks and Romans in the fifth century who refused to submit to the dominating religion in the Empire, is false and ridiculous when one extends it to other times, and to other peoples. It cannot be said without at once offending chronology and common sense, that the Romans or Greeks of the time of Cæsar, of Alexander, or of Pericles; the Persians, Arabs, Egyptians, Indians, the Chinese, ancient or modern, were Pagans; that is to say, peasants disobedient to the laws of Theodosius. These are polytheists, monotheists, mythologists, whatever one wishes, idolaters perhaps, but not Pagans.
[462]Novum Organ., aph. 48.
[463]De Dign. et Increm. Science, l. iii., c. 4.
[464]Ut supra.
[465] Bacon, de la Vie et de la Mort; Sueton., in Tiber., § 66.
[466]Diogen. Laërt., in Pythag.
[467]Hiérocl., Aur. Carm., v. 33.
[468] Bacon assures, following the ancients, that the envious eye is dangerous and that it has been observed that after great triumphs, illustrious personages having been the object of an envious eye have found themselves ill-disposed for some days following (Sylva Sylvarum, § 944).
[469]Aul. Gell., l. iv., c. 11.
[470] Athen., l. vii., c. 16; Jambl., Vitâ Pythag., c. 30.
[471]Jambl., ibid., c. 24.
[472]Diog. Laërt., l. viii., § 9; Clem. Alex., Pæd., l. ii., p. 170.
[473]Jambl., ibid., c. 21; Porphyre, "Vitâ Pythag., p. 37; Athen., l. x., p. 418; Aul. Gell., l. iv., c. 11.
[474]Diog. Laërt., l. viii., § 19.
[475]Hiérocl., Aur. Carm., v. 32.
[476]Proverbes du Brahme Barthrovhari.
[477]Chou-King, ch.Yu-Mo.
[478] On trouve ce passages dans le Tchong-Yong, ou Livre du Juste-Milieu; ouvrage très célèbre parmi les Chinois.