See pp. 54, 253. I have searched such numbers of the _Dissertations_ as appear to have reached this country from Vienna since 1910, without coming upon the continuation of Dr. Adler’s argument. It will be of great interest when it comes to hand, but could not adequately be discussed here. Footnote 6: ‘Où je puyse comme les Danaïdes, remplissant et versant sans cesse.’—i. 25. Footnote 7: The _Symposiacs_ were specially favourite reading of Archbishop Trench, whose bright little volume of _Lectures_ is perhaps the best introduction for English readers to the _Moralia_. Footnote 8: The same argument might perhaps be applied to the _Lives_, even as far as that of Dion, but there is no elaborate dedication there. Footnote 9: Dr. Mahaffy has acutely pointed out that the tract _De Tranquillitate animi_ must have been written before the accession of Titus in A. D. 79, because it contains a remark (467 E) that no Roman Emperor had yet been succeeded by his son. It is this sort of evidence of a date which we seek, but do not find, in the _Symposiacs_. Footnote 10: Some of Plutarch’s characters exemplify the ‘sternness of the judgements of youth’, as the younger Diogenianus.—See p. 94. Footnote 11: See Vol. I, p. 25. Footnote 12: See his Preface in Vol. I, p. xlii. Footnote 13: M. Chenevière’s study mentioned on p. 53 is very helpful but not easily accessible. Footnote 14: See p. 14; see also _Apollonius of Perga_, by Sir Thomas Heath, F.R.S., Introd., p. xxi. Footnote 15: ‘Forte’ is always used where we expect ‘fortasse’, and ‘nisi’ often for ‘si non’. Footnote 16: Adrien Turnĕbus (i. q. Toranebus?) was a native of Les Andelys (Eure), near Rouen, and the name is said to be of local origin. Montaigne, who knew him personally, always writes Turnebus; the later form Turnèbe seems to be due to false analogy. Footnote 17: I may now name Mr. Walter Sumner Gibson, M.A. of Balliol College, formerly an assistant-master at Charterhouse, who died on the 20th January, 1918, having in recent years acted as a Reader to the Clarendon Press. Footnote 18: ii. 4. Footnote 19: 1514-93. CONTENTS On the Genius of Socrates 1 Three Pythian Dialogues 52 I. On the ‘E’ at Delphi 57 II. Why the Pythia does not now give 79 Oracles in Verse III. On the Cessation of the Oracles 112 On the Instances of Delay in Divine 171 Punishment From the Dialogue ‘On the Soul’ 214 On Superstition 219 Appendix: A Short Discourse of 236 Superstition. By John Smith On the Face which appears on the Orb of 246 the Moon