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XVII. "Wonder at them" (18): i.e. mankind.

XXXVII. "Chrysippus" (42): C. refers to a passage of Plutarch De

Communibus Notitiis (c. xiv.), where Chrysippus is represented as

saying that a coarse phrase may be vile in itself, yet have due

place in a comedy as contributing to a certain effect.

XL. "Man or men..." There is no hiatus in the Greek, which means:

"Whatever (is beneficial) for a man is so for other men also."

XLII. There is no hiatus in the Greek.

BOOK VII IX. C. translates his conjecture mh for h. The Greek

means "straight, or rectified," with a play on the literal and

metaphorical meaning of ortoz.

XIV. endaimonia. contains the word daimwn in composition. XXII.

The text is corrupt, but the words "or if it be but few" should

be "that is little enough."

XXIII. "Plato": Republic, vi. p. 486 A.

XXV. "It will," etc. Euripides, Belerophon, frag. 287 (Nauck).

"Lives," etc. Euripides, Hypsipyle, frag. 757 (Nauck). "As long,"

etc. Aristophanes, Acharne, 66 i.

"Plato" Apology, p. 28 B.