[Footnote 25: '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 26: '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 27: Mommsen.] [Footnote 28: 'Inventore minor.'--Horace.] [Footnote 29: 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 30: 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 31: Brutus, 20.] [Footnote 32: De Fin. i. 2.] [Footnote 33: Cf. Eur. Med. 1-8:-- [Greek: Eith' ophel' Argous me diaptasthai skaphos Kolchon es aian kyaneas Symplegadas, med' en napaisi Peliou pesein pote tmetheisa peuke, med' eretmosai cheras andron aristeon, hoi to panchryson deros Pelia metelthon; ou gar an despoin' eme Medeia pyrgous ges epleus' Iolkias eroti thymon ekplageis' Iasonos.]] [Footnote 34: Several of these fragments will be examined later.] [Footnote 35: Tusc. Disp. ii. 16.] [Footnote 36: '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 its matter, language, and music.'--Tusc. Disp. iii. 19.] [Footnote 37: 'Here it is; here, the torch, wrapped in fire and blood. Many years it hath lain hid; help, citizens, and extinguish it. For now, on the great sea, a swift fleet is gathering. It hurries along a host of calamities. They come: a fierce host lines the shores with sail-winged ships.' Exitium = exitiorum; cf. Cic. Orator. 46, Itaque idem poeta, qui inusitatius contraxerat 'Patris mei meum factum pudet' pro 'meorum factorum' et 'Texitur: exitium examen rapit' pro 'exitiorum.'] [Footnote 38: Acad. ii. 28.]