BOOK VIII. In our entertainments we may and should use learned and philosophical discourse, 399. _Question_ 1. On the birthdays of famous men, and the generation of the Gods, 400, 401. 2. What is Plato’s meaning when he says that God all ways plays the geometer? 402-406. 3. Why sounds seem louder in the night than in the day, 406-410. 4. In the Sacred Games one sort of garland was given in one, and another in another: why was the Palm common to all? and why call the great dates Νικόλαοι? 411-414. 5. Why do those who sail upon the Nile take up the water they are to use before day? 415, 416 6. Concerning those who come late to an entertainment, and the derivation of the words ἀκράτισμα, ἀριστον, and δεὶπνον, 417-419. The Latin terms compared, 418. 7. Concerning the Symbols of Pythagoras: Receive not a swallow into your house; as soon as you are risen ruffle the bedclothes; and some other precepts: what is their meaning? 419-421. 8. Why the Pythagoreans do not eat fish, 422-426. 9. Whether there can be new diseases, and how caused, 426-432. On the negative, it is said the course of Nature is invariable, 427. The affirmative alleges that the causes of disease may vary, become intense and complicated, 430. Alterations in diet may raise new diseases, 432. 10. Why we give least credit to dreams in Autumn, 432-435. BOOK IX. _Question_ 1. Concerning verses fitly applied, and the reverse, 436-438. 2, 3. Why is Alpha placed first in the alphabet? and what is the proportion between the number of vowels and semi-vowels? 438-441. 4. Which of the hands of Venus did Diomedes wound? 441. 5. Why Plato says that the soul of Ajax came to draw her lot in the twentieth place in hell, 442, 443. 6. What is meant by the fable about the defeat of Neptune? and why do the Athenians omit the second day of the month Boëdromion? 444, 445. 12. Is it probable that the number of the stars is even or odd? 446. 13. A moot-point from the third book of the Iliad, 446-450. 14. Observations about the number of the Muses, and their relation to human affairs, 450-456. 15. That there are three parts in dancing, motion, gesture, and representation: what each part is, and what is common to both poetry and dancing, 457-460. OF MORAL VIRTUE. BY C. H., ESQUIRE.