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XXXVIII. "Rhetoric" (38): Rather "the gift of speech"; or perhaps

the "decree" of the reasoning faculty.

BOOK XI V. "Cithaeron" (6): Oedipus utters this cry after

discovering that he has fulfilled his awful doom, he was exposed

on Cithaeron as an infant to die, and the cry implies that he

wishes he had died there. Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1391.

V. "New Comedy...," etc. C. has here strayed from the Greek

rather widely. Translate: "and understand to what end the New

Comedy was adopted, which by small degrees degenerated into a

mere show of skill in mimicry." C. writes Comedia Vetus, Media,

Nova. XII. "Phocion" (13): When about to be put to death he

charged his son to bear no malice against the Athenians.

XXVIII. "My heart," etc. (31): From Homer, Odyssey ix. 413. "They

will" From Hesiod, Opera et Dies, 184.

"Epictetus" Arr. i. II, 37.

XXX. "Cut down grapes" (35): Correct "ears of corn."

"Epictetus"(36): Arr. 3, 22, 105.

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