The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2Julian, Emperor of Rome
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The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2
Julian, Emperor of Rome
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- Translations into English
383 Alcibiades.
384 The Stoic philosopher.
385 Cf. Aristotle, _Nicomachean Ethics_ 1. 10. 6.
386 Cf. _Oration_ 6. 195B, note.
387 _Iliad_ 2. 25.
388 παρασκευῆς Hertlein would read, τῆς παρασκευῆς MSS.
389 θαυμασιώτερον MSS.; Hertlein following Cobet reads θαυμαστότερον but
in later Preface would restore MSS. reading.
390 Alexander.
391 θεῖον Hertlein suggests, θεὸν MSS.
392 _Laws_ 709B.
393 A play on words: διανομὴ and νόμος are both connected with νέμω =
“to distribute.”
394 _Laws_ 713‐714; Julian condenses and slightly alters the original.
395 Ἀθηνῶν Cobet, Ἀθηναίων Hertlein, MSS.
396 We know nothing more of the events here mentioned.
397 A proverb derived from _Iliad_ 6. 236, where Glaukos exchanges his
golden armour for the bronze armour of Diomede.
398 Aristophanes, _Wasps_ 1431.
399 ὡς Klimek, ὅς Hertlein, MSS.
400 τὸν τοιοῦτον εἶδος πολιτείας Hertlein suggests, cf. Aristotle
_Politics_ 3. 16, 1287 a, τὸ τοιοῦτον εἶδος MSS.
401 ὃς Hertlein would add.
402 Several words indicating the second point enumerated seem to have
been lost.
403 οἷόν Hertlein suggests, ὃ MSS.
404 A proverb; cf. “bringing coals to Newcastle.”
405 Aristotle, _Politics_ 3. 15. 1286B.
406 _Ibid_ 3. 16. 1287A.
407 Cf. Plato, _Theaetetus_ 153.
408 Before Solon’s measure to cancel debts was generally known, some of
his friends borrowed large sums, knowing that they would not have to
repay them.
409 Aristotle, _Politics_ 7. 3. 1325B.
410 _Odyssey_ 21. 26.
411 ἐν τῷ πράττειν ... τοὺς κυρίους Hertlein suggests, τοὺς ἐν τῷ
πράττειν ... κυρίους MSS.
412 πρότερος Hertlein suggests, πρότερον MSS.
413 The father of Socrates.
414 This school was founded by Phaedo in Elis and later was transferred
by Menedemus to Eretria.
415 The Megarian school founded by Euclid was finally absorbed by the
Cynics.
416 Simmias and Cebes were Pythagoreans; cf. Plato, _Phaedo_, where they
discuss with Socrates.
417 Alexander; Julian seems to be misquoting Plutarch, _Moralia_ 78 D.
418 Cf. _Caesars_ 326 B note.
419 A historian under Augustus.
420 The Platonic philosopher and astrologer, cf. Tacitus, _Annals_ 6.
21.
421 The Stoic philosopher exiled by Nero.
422 ἁπάσῃ μηχανῇ follows ὑμῶν in MSS.; Hertlein suggests present
reading.
423 τε Hertlein suggests, γε MSS.
424 Demosthenes, _De Corona_ 23.
425 Cf. _Caesars_ 323 B.
426 The first King of Media; reigned 709‐656 B.C.
427 A priest of Apollo whose story and date are uncertain.
428 A Scythian prince who visited Athens at the end of the sixth century
B.C.; cf. Cicero, _Tusculan Disputations_ 5. 32; Lucian,
_Anacharsis_.
429 The story is told in Plutarch, _Themistocles_.
430 Athene.
431 τὸν ἐμὸν Hertlein suggests, ἐμὸν MSS.
432 ἐξέδυσε Hertlein suggests, ἐρρύσατο οὐδὲ Cobet, ἐρρύσατο MSS.
433 Gallus.
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