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 APPENDIX. 563 Page 195. — Ichor, such as immortal gods are wont to shed, flows from the wounded hand of Venus (Iliad V., 340). Page 211. — Bagoas's house, at Susa, is probably the sense, but the words at Susa, omitted in the translation, are doubtful. Page 226. — The passage from the Andromache is a speech of Peleus to Menelaus (693-702). The fragment (p. 228), in disparagement of the wise man who is not wise to his own interest (miso sophisten hostis oukh hautoi sophos), is quoted also, once in Greek, and twice in a Latin form given it by Ennius (qui ipse sibi sapiens prodesse non quit, nequidquam sapit), by Cicero (Ad Diversos, XIII, 15, a letter to Casar, $■ VII., 6, Sr de Officiis, III, 15). It is No. CXI. in Matthias's Uncertain Fragments. 'Tis easy on good subjects to a xcel is from the mouth of Tiresias in the Baccha; (266-267). In civil strife e'en villains rise to fame (p. 229) is a verse which Plutarch has already used twice in the Lives, once in that of Nicias, and again in the comparison between Lysander and Sylla, and it occurs a third time in the Essay on Brotherly Love ; but where it comes from is, I believe, unknown. Death seized at last on great Patroclus too is from the uncompassionate answer returned by Achilles to the prayers of Lycaon, one of Priam's sons, in the battle of the rivers (Iliad XXI., 107). While yet Patroclus lived, he might haply have thought upon pity, now death was the doom of every Trojan man, and above all, of the children of Priam ; wherefore, Be content, good friend, and die, and do not lament it j Patroclus died also, who was much better than you are. Look at me and observe my size and beauty of person, Yet for me too death is at hand, and the fated appointment. Either in the morning, or the evening, or at the noonday, Some one in the battle shall take the life from my body With the stroke of a spear or arrow shot from the bowstring. Page 247. — Promachus won the prize (or crown), which was a talent. This appears to be the correct reading ; the crown is simply taken as equivalent to the prize, and might, bike a cup in English races, be something else, a sum of money. Page 254. — As a sort of guard to his person should be rather, perhaps, as a sort of badge of the royal power which he himself exercised. The term seems to have been one in use for the mute person who appeared on the stage to attend the actor who represented a king. Life op Cesar, page 258. — Apollonius should not be called, as he is both here and in the Life of Cicero, Molon's son, but Molon, or Molo, which was his additional name. It is Plutarch's mistake. Page 262. — High Priest is the Latin Pontiles Maximus. The highest relig- ious dignities were held, at Rome, by laymen. Caesar, as High Priest, had an official residence, the Regia, in which he lived to the day of his death. Page 271. — The words whose glory went up at that time to heaven should have perhaps been placed between inverted commas. The form, if not the exact words of the phrase, is from the Odyssey ; the nearest passage to it is in the answer made by Ulysses to the inquiry of the Cyclops : " AVe are Achai- aus on our way from Troy, driven by the winds, the people of Atrides Aga»