[101] All these four were titles of _Zeus_. They are
very difficult to put into English so as to convey any
distinctive and definite idea to an English reader.
[102] Enthusiasm is the being [Greek: entheos], or
inspired by some god.
[103] From AEschylus, "Supplices," 681, 682.
[104] "Iliad," vii. 121, 122.
[105] Like the character described in Lucretius, ii.
1-6.
[106] Sophocles, "Trachiniae," 497. The Cyprian Queen
is, of course, Aphrodite.
[107] Hence the famous Proverb, "Non omnibus dormio."
See Cic. "Ad. Fam." vii. 24.
[108] Above, in Sec. xiii.
[109] See Sophocles, "Antigone," 783, 784. And compare
Horace, "Odes," Book iv. Ode xiii. 6-8, "Ille virentis
et Doctae psallere Chiae _Pulchris excubat in genis_."
[110] The "Niobe," which exists only in a few fragments.
[111] This was the name of Dionysius' Poem. He was a
Corinthian poet.
[112] "Iliad," xiii. 131.
[113] Reading according to the conjecture of Wyttenbach,
[Greek: hos ton Erota uonon aetteton onta ton
strategon].
[114] Something has probably dropped out here, as Duebner
suspects.
[115] Fragment from the "Stheneboea" of Euripides.
[116] Anytus was one of the accusers of Socrates, and so
one of the causers of his death. So Horace calls
Socrates "Anyti reum," "Sat." ii. 4, 3.
[117] Homeric Epigrammata, xiii. 5. Quoted also in "On
Virtue and Vice," Sec. 1.
[118] Odyssey, xix. 40.
[119] I adopt the suggestion of Wyttenbach, [Greek:
eipen, o Daphnaie].
[120] Pinder, "Pyth." i. 8.
[121] See for example Homer, Iliad, xi. 3, 73; ix. 502.
[122] Euripides, "Pirithous," Fragm. 591. Dindorf.
[123] An allusion to Homer, "Odyssey," xii. 453.
[124] So Terence, "Andria," 555. "Amantium irae amoris
integratiost."
[125] Euripides, "Hippolytus," 194-196.
[126] The lines are from Alcaeus. 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 [Greek: orthes kai
athruptou.]
[133] I read [Greek: ei gar].
[134] See "Iliad," xxiii. 295. Podargus was an entire
horse.
[135] See Ovid, "Metamorph." iii. 206-208.
[136] AEschylus, "Toxotides," Fragm. 224.
[137] A very favourite proverb among the ancients. See
Plat. "Phaedr." fin. Martial, ii. 43.
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