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[13] If the mina be taken at 15 oz. avoirdupois, (Dict. of G. and

R. Antiquities, article Talentum,) we must be sadly degenerate in

our gastric capacity.

[14] The two are necessary, because since the reason itself may

be perverted, a man must have recourse to an external standard;

we may suppose his [Greek: logos] originally to have been a

sufficient guide, but when he has injured his moral perceptions

in any degree, he must go out of himself for direction.

[15] This is one of the many expressions which seem to imply that

this treatise is rather a collection of notes of a viva voce

lecture than a set formal treatise. "The table" of virtues and

vices probably was sketched out and exhibited to the audience.

[16] Afterwards defined as "All things whose value is measured by

money."

[17] We have no term exactly equivalent; it may be illustrated by

Horace's use of the term hiatus: