The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2Julian, Emperor of Rome
Philosophy
The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2
Julian, Emperor of Rome
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- Translations into English
9 For the tradition that Diogenes died of eating a raw octopus cf.
Lucian, _Sale of Creeds_ 10.
10 A pupil of Socrates and founder of the Cynic sect.
11 A proverb, but Julian may allude to _Matthew_ 6. 28.
12 Herodotus 6.129; Hippocleides, when told by Cleisthenes that by his
unbecoming method of dancing he had “danced away his marriage,” made
this answer which became a proverb.
13 καταπεμφθεῖσα Reiske would add.
14 τῆς ζωῆς Wright σώματος Hertlein, MSS. Petavius suspects corruption.
15 θεῷ Klimek, θεῶν Hertlein, MSS.
16 An echo of Plato, _Philebus_ 16 C; cf. Themistius 338 C.
17 _e.g._ eloquence, commerce, and social intercourse.
18 ταῦτα Hertlein suggests, τὰ MSS.
19 προσήκειν—ἄνθρωπον, Hertlein suggests, cf. Maximus of Tyre 4. 7; ἔφη
τὰ μεταξὺ τοῦ ζῷον εἶναι τὸν ἄνθρωπον MSS.
20 Cf. 188 B; Juvenal, _Satires_ 11. 27; E caelo descendit γνῶθι
σεαυτόν.
21 _Odyssey_ 4. 379.
22 _Iliad_ 13. 355.
23 Nestor; _Odyssey_ 3. 174.
24 Heracleitus _fr._ 80.
25 Cf. _Oration_ 4. 143 A.
26 οὐδ᾽ ὁ Hertlein suggests, οὐδὲ MSS.
27 ἔτι Hertlein suggests, ἤδη Reiske, ἐστὶν MSS.
28 Zeno of Citium in Cyprus, the founder of the Stoic school.
29 Julian seems to mean that Zeno and the Stoics could not accept
without modification the manner of life advocated by the Cynic
Crates.
30 δὴ Hertlein suggests, δὲ MSS.
31 ἀπεληλακόσι Naber, ἀπεληλάκασι Hertlein, MSS.
32 παρίασιν Cobet, παριᾶσιν Hertlein, MSS.
33 οἳ διχάδε Hertlein suggests, cf. _Symposium_ 215, οἱ δὲ MSS.
34 Cf. _Oration_ 5. 159 B.
35 Cf. _Oration_ 7. 210 D, 212 A.
36 Plato, _Symposium_ 215.
37 Before αἴτιος Cobet omits τις.
38 Before κατέλιπεν Cobet omits οὗτος.
39 οὕτω φιλοσοφῆσαι Reiske suggests, lacuna Hertlein, MSS.
40 μόνον Hertlein suggests, πρῶτον MSS.
41 Of Gadara, a Cynic philosopher whose date is probably the second
century A.D.; cf. 199 A, 209 B, 210 D, 212 A.
42 Lucian, _Sale of Creeds_ 8, makes Diogenes say that he had modelled
himself on Heracles.
43 Heracleitus _fr._ 16, Bywater.
44 Cf. _Oration_ 7. 208 D, 211 B, 211 C.
45 Apollo.
46 Of Thebes, the Cynic philosopher, a pupil of Diogenes; he lived in
the latter half of the fourth century B.C.
47 Plato, _Laws_ 730 B.
48 _Alcibiades_ i. 129 A.
49 _Crito_ 44 C.
50 _Epistle_ 2. 314 C; Julian quotes from memory and slightly alters
the original; Plato meant that in his dialogues he had suppressed
his own personality in favour of Socrates.
51 τῇ καθαρᾷ χρῆσθαι Hertlein suggests, τῇ γε ὡς ἀρχῃ MSS., corrupt.
52 δὲ Hertlein suggests.
53 τὴν Naber suggests.
54 Cf. Lucretius, _De Rerum Natura_ 3. 359 foll.; Sextus Empiricus,
_Adversus Mathematicos_ 7. 350.
55 αὐτὸ τοῦτο Hertlein suggests, αὐτοῦ MSS.
56 τὴν θεωρίαν Hertlein suggests, πρὸς τὴν θεωρίαν MSS., θεωρίας
Petavius.
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