[Footnote 67: 'I have always said and will say that the gods of heaven exist, but I think that they heed not the conduct of mankind; for, if they did, it would be well with the good and ill with the bad; and it is not so now.'] [Footnote 68: Cor jubet hoc Enni, postquam destertuit esse Maeonides, Quintus pavone ex Pythagoreo. Persius, vi. 10 (Ed. Jahn). ] [Footnote 69: Vahlen.] [Footnote 70: E.g. Horace, Sat. ii. 4.] [Footnote 71: 'The poetical philosophy, which the later Pythagoreans had extracted from the writings of the old Sicilian comedian, Epicharmus of Megara, or rather had, at least for the most part, circulated under cover of his name, regarded the Greek gods as natural substances, Zeus as the atmosphere, the soul as a particle of Sun-dust, and so forth.'--Mommsen's Hist. of Rome, Book iii. ch. 15. (Dickson's Translation.)] [Footnote 72: 'This is that Jupiter which I speak of, which the Greeks call the air; it is first wind and clouds; afterwards rain, and after rain, cold; next it becomes wind, then air again. All those things which I mention to you are Jupiter, because it is he who supports mortals and cities and all animals.'] [Footnote 73: Mommsen.] [Footnote 74: 'Inventore minor.'--Horace.] [Footnote 75: Another passage, ascribed to Ennius, descriptive of the greed of a parasite, occupies the ground common to Roman comedy and to Roman satire:-- Quippe sine cura laetus lautus cum advenis Insertis malis, expedito bracchio Alacer, celsus, lupino expectans impetu, Mox cum alterius obligurias bona, Quid censes domino esse animi? pro divum fidem! Ille tristis cibum dum servat, tu ridens voras. ] [Footnote 76: The meaning of the passage amounts to no more than this, that the man who tries to 'sell' another, and fails, is himself 'sold.'] [Footnote 77: Brutus, 20.] [Footnote 78: De Fin. i. 2.] [Footnote 79: Cf. Eur. Med. 1-8:-- Εἴθ᾽ ὤφελ᾽ Αργοῦς μὴ διαπτάσθαι σκάφος Κόλχων ἐς αἶαν κυανέας Συμπληγάδας, μηδ᾽ ἐν νάπαισι Πηλίου πεσεῖν ποτε τμηθεῖσα πεύκη, μηδ᾽ ἐρετμῶσαι χέρας ἀνδρῶν ἀριστέων, οἳ τὸ πάγχρυσον δέρος Πελίᾳ μετῆλθον· οὐ γὰρ ἂν δέσποιν᾽ ἐμὴ Μήδεια πύργους γῆς ἔπλευσ᾽ Ἰωλκίας ἔρωτι θυμὸν ἐκπλαγεῖσ᾽ Ἰάσονος. ] [Footnote 80: Several of these fragments will be examined later.] [Footnote 81: Tusc. Disp. ii. 16.] [Footnote 82: 'How tender, how true to character, how affecting!' De Div. i. 31. 'What a great poet, though he is despised by those admirers of Euphorion. He understands that sudden and unlooked-for calamities are more grievous. A noble poem,--pathetic in matter, in language, in melody.' Tusc. Disp. iii. 19.]