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 508 APPENDIX. his mercy, little knowing that it was useless, since he was no easy or good- natured man. Page 14. — The oration for the Immunities is that commonly called the ora- tion against Leptines. ' Page 18. — War can't be fed at so much a day is a saying quoted in three other places by Plutarch, — once in the Life of Cleomenes, once in that of Crassus, and once in the miscellaneous works, — and in all these passages it is ascribed to king Archldamus, who commanded the Spartans in the first cam- paigns of the Peloponnesian war, and whose language, as reported by Thucy- dides, has something of this purport. Page 27. — Will you not hear the cup-hearer ? is explained by the custom ol drinking parties, that each guest as he took the cup in his hand should sing some verses. The cup in a man's hand was the signal for all to listen to him. Dacier cites this as the remark of M. Lefevre, Tann(5guy Lefevre, his teacher and the father of Madame Dacier, known in the Latin of commentators as Tanaquillus Faber. Page 34. — He had encouraged Perdiccas to fall upon Macedonia. I believe it has been more commonly said, as in the note to the te.t, that the mistaken statement is this, and that it was not Perdiccas, but Antigonus, to whom Demades had written. But Mr. Grote in his history takes this for the correct, and the passage in the life of Phocion for the incorrect account ; during Demades's lifetime, Perdiccas, not Antigonus, had been formidable to Mace- donia. Life of Ciceho, page 36. — The third of the new Calends, the day on which now the magistrates pray and sacrifice for the Emperor, was, in imperial times, a well-known anniversary, known by the name of Vota. Capitolinus, in a passage of his life of Pertinax, quoted by Dacier, speaks of a thing happen- ing ante diem terlium Konariim, Votis ipsis ; and in Facciolati a passage from Vopiscus is added, to the eflfect that the emperor Tacitus built a chapel for the •worship of the good emperors, in which libations should be made on his own birthday, on the feast of Parilia, on the Calends of January, and on the Vota. The passage from Plato about the true, scholarlike, and philosophical temper is from the Republic, p. 475. Page 39. — Apollonius was not the son of Molon, but Molon or Molo merely his own surname. Greek and Scholar, terms of reproach, are noticeable. Greek is in the original not Hellen, the proper national name, but Grai/cos, the Roman Groecus, a name never used of themselves by those whom we, after the Roman usage, call Greeks. Scholar is scholasticos, the learned fool or pedant of the late Greek witticisms. Page 40. — Cicero tells us himself, in his speech pro Plancio. Much had been said in praise of various good deeds done in the country by Laterensis, Plancius's opponent. " Very likely," says Cicero, " but at Rome so much is done, that one hardly knows what occurs in the provinces. I may be forgiven for speaking of my own quaestorship ; " and he proceeds to mention the honors paid to him in Sicily. " I had done a good deal, arid, I confess it frankly, I came away in the belief that all the talk at Rome was of nothing but my quaes- torship. On my way home I visited Puteoli, whei'e the best company is usually