[Footnote 16: 'Quis enim tam inimicus paene nomini Romano est, qui Ennii Medeam aut Antiopam Pacuvii spernat aut rejiciat, quod se eisdem Euripidis fabulis delectari dicat?'--Cic. De Fin. i. 2.] [Footnote 17: De Oratore, ii. 37.] [Footnote 18: Cic. Tusc. Disp. ii. 21.] [Footnote 19: 'Behold this, which around and above encompasseth the earth, and puts on brightness at the rising of the sun, becomes dark at his setting; that which our people call Heaven, and the Greeks Aether. Whatever this is, it is to all things the source of life, form, nourishment, growth, existence; it is the grave and receptacle of all things, and the parent, too, of all things: all things which arise from it equally lapse into it again.' Compare with this passage Lucretius, ii. 991-- 'Denique caelesti sumus omnes semine oriundi,' etc. Both may be traced to a fragment of the Chrysippus of Euripides, quoted by Ribbeck, Roem. Trag. p. 257; and also by Munro, Lucret. p. 455, third edition.] [Footnote 20: 'Philosophers say that Fortune is mad, blind, and senseless, and represent her as set on a round rolling stone. They say that she is mad, because she is harsh, fickle, untrustworthy; blind, for this reason, that she can see nothing to which to attach herself; senseless, because she cannot distinguish between the worthy and unworthy. Other philosophers again deny the existence of Fortune, but hold that all things are ruled by chance. That this is more probable, common experience proves, as Orestes was but the other day a king, and is now a beggar.'] [Footnote 21: 'For those men who understand the language of birds, and have more wisdom from examining the liver of other beings than from their own (i.e. understanding), I think should be heard rather than listened to.'] [Footnote 22: 'Thou, too, Ulysses, although we see thee sore wounded, art yet almost too much cast down; thou, who hast been used to pass thy life in arms!'] [Footnote 23: 'To complain of adverse fortune is well, but not to lament over it. The one is the act of a man; it is a woman's part to weep.'] [Footnote 24: Sueton. Caes. 84.] [Footnote 25: De Orat. ii. 46.] [Footnote 26: 'Didst thou venture to let him part from thee, or to enter Salamis without him; and didst thou not fear to see thy father's face, when in his old age, bereft of his children, thou hast torn him with anguish, robbed, crushed him; nor didst thou feel for thy brother's death, and his child, who was trusted to thy protection--?'] [Footnote 27: Compare especially the fragments of the speeches of C. Gracchus.]