Part 55

A mina was 100 drachmae (i.e. L4. 1s. 3d.), and 600 obols.

A slave's ordinary dress.

One of the Seven Wise Men.

Homer, "Iliad," iii. 182.

Homer, "Iliad," ii. 111.

Words of Agamemnon to the House Porter. Euripides, "Iphigenia in Aulis," 17-19.

"Iliad," xviii. 105, 106.

See Pausanias, x. 24.

Pindar, Fragm., 258. Quoted "On Moral Virtue," Sec. xii.

Homer, "Iliad," xvii. 61; "Odyssey," vi. 130.

A famous breed of dogs from the island Melita, near Dalmatia. See Pliny, "Hist. Nat.," iii. 26, extr. Sec. 30; xxx. 5, extr. Sec. 14.

That Non omnia possumus omnes.

Pindar, "Isthm.," i. 65-70.

Hesiod, "Works and Days," 25. Our "two of a trade seldom agree."

An allusion to "Iliad," xxiv. 527-533.

Ocnus. See Pausanias, x. 29.

So Wyttenbach, who reads [Greek: Hos de touton].

Reading [Greek: oia] with Reiske.

Homer to wit.

The soul.

The reading here is rather doubtful. That I have adopted is Reiske's and Wyttenbach's.

"Iliad," v. 484.

Euripides, "Bacchae," 498. Compare Horace, "Epistles," i. xvi. 78, 79.

Reading with Duebner [Greek: argian]. Reiske has [Greek: atonian].

Euripides, "Orestes," 396.

The Saturnalia (as the Romans called this feast) was well known as a festival of merriment and license.

ON ENVY AND HATRED.

Sec. I. Outwardly there seems no difference between hatred and envy, but they seem identical. For generally speaking, as vice has many hooks, and is swayed hither and thither by the passions that hang on it, there are many points of contact and entanglement between them, for as in the case of illnesses there is a sympathy between the various passions. Thus the prosperous man is equally a source of pain to hate and envy. And so we think benevolence the opposite of both these passions, being as it is a wish for our neighbour's good, and we think hate and envy identical, for the desire of both is the very opposite of benevolence. But since their similarities are not so great as their dissimilarities, let us investigate and trace out these two passions from their origin.