CONJUGAL PRECEPTS.
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Plutarch and Shilleto, A. R. (Arthur Richard)
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123 An allusion to Homer, "Odyssey," xii. 453.
124 So Terence, "Andria," 555. "Amantium iræ amoris integratiost."
125 Euripides, "Hippolytus," 194-196.
126 The lines are from Alcæus. Thus Love was the child of the Rainbow and the West Wind. A pretty conceit.
127 Greek iris.
128 The mirrors of the ancients were of course not like our mirrors. They were only burnished bronze. Hence the view in them would be at best somewhat obscure. This explains 1 Cor. xiii. 12; 2 Cor. iii. 18; James i. 23.
129 See Euripides, "Hippolytus," 7, 8.
130 Here the story unfortunately ends, and for all time we shall know no more of it. Reiske somewhat forcibly says, "Vel lippus videat Gorgus historiam non esse finitam, et multa, ut et alias, periisse."
131 Like Reiske we condense here a little.
132 Reading with Reiske ὀρθῆς και ἀθρύπτου.
133 I read εἰ γἁρ.
134 See "Iliad," xxiii. 295. Podargus was an entire horse.
135 See Ovid, "Metamorph." iii. 206-208.
136 Æschylus, "Toxotides," Fragm. 224.
137 A very favourite proverb among the ancients. See Plat. "Phaedr." fin. Martial, ii. 43.
138 Soph. Fragm. 712.
139 On Lais, see Pausanias, ii. 2. Her Thessalian lover is there called Hippostratus. Her favours were so costly that the famous proverb is said to owe its origin to her, "Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum."
140 The Ægean and Ionian. Cf. Horace, "Odes," i. 7, 2.
141 On Acro-Corinthus, see Pausanias, ii. 4. The words in inverted commas are from Euripides, Fragm. 921.
142 On Lais generally, and her end, see Athenæus, xiii. 54, 55.
143 See § I. The Festival of Love was being kept at this very time.
144 This story is also told by Plutarch, "De Mulierum Virtutibus," § xx.
145 Sophocles, Fragm. 741. Quoted again in "On Abundance of Friends," § iii.
146 A Delphic word for love. Can it be connected with ἅρμα?
147 Very frequent in Homer, e.g., "Iliad," ii. 232; vi, 165; xiii. 636: xiv. 353, etc.
148 See Lucretius, iv. 1105-1114. I tone down the original here a little.
149 Homer, "Odyssey," vi. 183, 184. Cf. Eurip. "Medea," 14, 15.
150 This means when the moustache and beard and whiskers begin to grow.
151 The whole story about Harmodius and Aristogiton and how they killed Hipparchus is told by Thucydides, vi. 54-59. Bion therefore practically called these sprouting beards tyrant-killers, tyrannicides.
152 "Scriptus igitur hic libellus est post caedem Domitiani."—Reiske.
153 Vespasian certainly was not cruel generally. "Non temere quis punitus insons reperietur, nisi absente eo et ignaro aut certe invito atque decepto..... Sola est, in qua merito culpetur, pecuniæ cupiditas."—Suetonius, "Divus Vespasianus," 15, 16.