269 A direct quotation from Demosthenes, _De Corona_ 128; the word omitted by Julian is κάθαρμα = “off‐scourings,” or “outcast,” addressed by Demosthenes to Aeschines. 270 An echo of Xenophon, _Anabasis_ 1. 5. 14. 271 For this device of introducing hackneyed poetical and mythological allusions cf. Themistius 330, 336 C; Aristides, _Oration_ 20. 428 D; Himerius, _Oration_ 18. 1. Epictetus 3. 282. 272 A proverb for wealth; cf. Theocritus 10. 13. 273 δῆτα Cobet adds, lacuna Hertlein, MSS. 274 συστατικὸν Cobet, ἀστατικὸν V, Hertlein, ἐνστατικὸν Reiske, εὐστατικὸν Spanheim. 275 δὴ Cobet, δὲ Hertlein, MSS. 276 προηγόρευτο Cobet, προηγορεύετο Hertlein, MSS. 277 Pythagoras. 278 _Philebus_ 12 C. 279 _Timaeus_ 40 D; Julian fails to see that Plato is not speaking seriously. 280 Aristotle. 281 ἐκφοβήσεις Cobet, ἐκφοβήσῃς Hertlein, MSS. 282 ὁποίας Hertlein suggests, ὅπως MSS. 283 συνιεὶς Hertlein suggests, συνεὶς MSS. 284 μέγα φρονοῦντα Cobet, μεγαλοφρονοῦντα Hertlein, MSS. 285 τοῖς Naber, τούτοις Hertlein, MSS. 286 _Diogenes Laertius_ 6. 39. 287 Diogenes like Socrates claimed that he had a δαιμόνιον, a private revelation to guide his conduct; cf. 212 D. 288 Cf. _Oration_ 4. 148 A, note. 289 This was the πρόρρησις or praefatio sacrorum; cf. Livy 45. 5. 290 cf. vol. i. p. 351. 291 κοινὸν Wright, καινὸν Hertlein, MSS. 292 ἂν—μιμήσαιτο Hertlein suggests, μιμήσεται MSS. 293 ἀντηχήσειε Hertlein suggests, ἀντηχήσει MSS. 294 _Odyssey_ 4. 227; a sophistic commonplace; cf. 412 D, Themistius 357 A; Julian seems to mean that the nepenthe was not really a drug but a story told by Helen. 295 Plato, _Phaedo_ 60 B. 296 Cf. _Oration_ 2. 101 A. 297 Mardonius. 298 _Iliad_ 17. 720. 299 _Iliad_ 11. 401. 300 _Iliad_ 11. 163. 301 _Iliad_ 17. 242. 302 μόνος—φροντίδος Brambs regards as a verse; Hertlein prints as prose. 303 Nauck, _Adespota fragmenta_ 430. 304 ἀλλὰ Reiske supplies, lacuna Hertlein: after πραττόμενα several words are lost. 305 πολυειδοῦς Cobet, πολυτελοῦς Hertlein, MSS. 306 Julian quotes from memory and paraphrases _Epistle_ 7. 325 C. 307 This feat of Xerxes became a rhetorical commonplace. 308 Aristophanes, _Acharnians_ 1; cf. 248 D. 309 A commonplace; Plato, _Laws_ 659 E; Julian, _Caesars_ 314 C; Dio Chrysostom 33. 10; Themistius 63 B, 302 B; Maximus of Tyre 10. 6. 310 _Odyssey_ 11. 202. 311 Demosthenes, _De Corona_ 97; cf. Julian, _Epistle_ 53. 439 D. 312 Cf. _Caesars_ 309 C note. 313 Plato, _Charmides_ 156 D. 314 _Iliad_ 9. 524. 315 _Odyssey_ 9. 14. 316 οὐ μόνον οὐ δυσχεραίνω χαίρω δὲ Hertlein suggests, cf. 37 B, 255 D; καὶ χαίρω γε MSS. 317 ἀρετῆς Hertlein suggests, τῆς ἀρετῆς MSS. 318 Theocritus 12. 15. 319 Hesiod, _Works and Days_ 293, 295 ὃς αὑτῷ πάντα νοήσῃ; Diogenes Laertius 7. 25.