THAT VIRTUE MAY BE TAUGHT.
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Plutarch and Shilleto, A. R. (Arthur Richard)
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191 Timoxena, as we see later on, § ix.
192 Adopting Reiske's reading, μαστὸν κελεύουσα, προεκαλεῖτο καθάπερ.
193 Euripides' "Phaethon," which exists only in fragments. Clymene was the daughter of Oceanus, and mother of Phaethon.
194 An allusion to Euripides, "Bacchæ," 317, 318.
195 Reading with Reiske οὐδένι λόγῳ δὲ, or ἀλόγως δὲ. Some such reading seems necessary to comport with the τί γὰρ ἀλογώτερον two lines later.
196 Reading παρεῖχες with Xylander.
197 A great craving for sympathy would be the modern way of putting it.
198 See the Fable of Æsop, entitled Πένθους γερας, No. 355. Halme. See also Plutarch's "Consolation to Apollonius," § xix., where the Fable is told at some length.
199 Reading with Reiske οὐκ ἂν εἰπεῖν φοβηθείην.
200 An allusion to Euripides, "Andromache," 930. See Plutarch's "Conjugal Precepts," § xl.
201 The whole subject is discussed in full by Athenæus, p. 632, F. F. A false quantity we see was a bugbear even before the days of Universities.
202 Homer, "Iliad," v. 646; xxiii. 71.
203 This section is dreadfully corrupt. I have adopted, it will be seen, the suggestions of Wyttenbach.
204 This Consolatory Letter ends rather abruptly. It is probable that there was more of it.