A DIALOGUE BETWEEN SYLLA AND FUNDANUS.
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Plutarch and Shilleto, A. R. (Arthur Richard)
Source notes
676 Homer, "Iliad," xxii. 373.
677 Alluded to again "On the tranquillity of the mind," § i.
678 The allusion is to Homer's "Odyssey," xx. 23.
679 Reading ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ with Reiske.
680 Euripides, "Orestes," 72.
681 Euripides, "Orestes," 99.
682 Fragment 361.
683 Homer, "Iliad," xvii. 591.
684 The reading of the MSS. is αὐτῶν.
685 Lines of Callimachus. φλιήν is the admirable emendation of Salmasius.
686 Sophocles, "Thamyras," Fragm. 232.
687 "Iliad," v. 214-216.
688 Reading ἐνίοις, as Wyttenbach suggests.
689 Aeschylus, "Prometheus," 574, 575.
690 It will be seen I adopt the reading and punctuation of Xylander.
691 This is the reading of Reiske and Dübner.
692 That is mild. Zeus is so called, Pausanias, i. 37; ii. 9, 20.
693 That is, fierce, furious. It will be seen I adopt the suggestion of Reiske.
694 Literally "is silent about." It is like the saying about Von Moltke that he can be silent in six or seven languages.
695 Adopting Reiske's reading.
696 Compare Pausanias, iv. 8.
697 Dübner puts this sentence in brackets.
698 Sophocles, "Antigone," 563, 564.
699 Homer, "Iliad," xix. 138.
700 Homer, "Odyssey," xx. 392.
701 Or strigils.
702 Anticyra was famous for its hellebore, which was prescribed in cases of madness. See Horace, "Satires," ii. 3. 82, 83.
703 Homer, "Iliad," xxiv. 239, 240.
704 A philosopher of Megara, and disciple of Socrates. Compare our author, "De Fraterno Amore," § xviii.
705 So Reiske. Dübner reads φόβου. The MSS. have φόνου, which Wyttenbach retains, but is evidently not quite satisfied with the text. Can φθόνου—ἑτερον be an account of ἐπιχαιρεκακια?
706 Up in the clouds. Cf. ἀεροβατέω.
707 Horace, remembering these lines no doubt, says "De Arte Poetica," 191, 192,
"Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodusInciderit."
708 It is quite likely that the delicious poet Robert Herrick borrowed hence his "To starve thy sin not bin, That is to keep thy Lent." For we know he was a student of the "Moralia" when at the University of Cambridge.
709 See Æschylus, "Eumenides," 107. Sophocles, "Œdipus Colonæus," 481. See also our author's "De Sanitate Præcepta," § xix.
710 Jeremy Taylor has closely imitated parts of this Dialogue in his "Holy Living," chapter iv. sect. viii., "Twelve remedies against anger, by way of exercise," "Thirteen remedies against anger, by way of consideration." Such a storehouse did he make of the "Moralia."