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 510 APPENDIX. a fragment of one of ^schylus's elegies. Plutarcli quotes it in three other places, in the minor works. It is No. 461 in Hemiann's edition. Demetrius, page 96. — For the words of Plato, that great natures produce great vices as well as great virtues, Coray refers to a passage in the Crito, " Would to heaven they were capable of accomplishing the greatest evils, as in this case, they might be capable of the greatest good!" (p. 44.) But perhaps he alludes ratlier to the descriptions in the Republic, of the temptations aid perils to which the best natures, the true philosophical, wisdom-loving minds ai"e exposed — from these come, when perverted and corrupted, those who do the greatest mischiefs to states alike, and individuals : as also those that do the .greatest benefits, ifhaphj they take this direction, (de RepMica, VI., ch. 8, p. 495). Page 99. — For the theory ot Empedocles as to the elements of the world, compare Horace's phrase of the rerum discordia concors. Two verses, still re- maining among the fragments of Empedocles, express this doctrine of attrac- tions and repulsions. " All things at one time in liking collect and combine into one thing. All things again at another, divide and are severed in quarrel." Page 106. — Adding flame to fire, Aristophanes, Equites, 382. Page 107. — The show of hospitable entertainment with which Ceres and Bac- chus are received, when they were supposed to enter the city in procession in the times of their festivals. Philippides was a comic writer of great distinction. He is one of the six whom the grammarians selected as the standards of the third, or, as it is called, the New, Attic Comedy. The list is as follows: Phile- mon, Menander, Diphilus, Philippides, Posidippus, ApoUodorus. Page 109. — Natural or not, a man must serve where profit toill be got, is from the Phcenissaj, 398. Page 116. — The picture o( lalysus and his dog was still at Rhodes in Stra- bo's time, but was taken to Rome and placed, where Pliny saw it, and, no doubt, Plutarch also, in the Temple of Peace, built, after the end of the new civil wars, by Vespasian ; and perished when the Temj^le was burnt in the reign of Commodus. Page 120. — The description of the mockeries passed upon the other kings, Seleucus, Master of the Elephants, etc., appears to be taken from Phylarchus, the writer whom Plutarch follows in the life of Cleomenes. Atheuaeus ( 17., p. 261) quotes it as from the tenth book of Phylarchus's histories. Li/simachns said he had never before seen a courtezan act a queen's part ; the women's parts on the Greek stage were performed by men. This again is quoted by Athe- niEus (_XIV., p. 614), from the sLth book of Phylarchus. Demetrius, sneering at the short and mean names of Lysimachus's courtiers and captains, said his court was like a comedy stage, there was not a single personage with three syllables to his name — contrasting Bithys and Paris, Lysimachus's friends, with his own Peucestes and Menelaus and Oxythemis, sounds worthy of the tragic stage. Lysimachus retorts, that he had never seen a harlot on the tragic stage, and Demetrius rejoins as in the text. Page 129. — The saying of Plato, that the ivag to be rich is not to have more properlg, but fewer desires, is repeated in a vaiiety of foi'oia by both Greek and