Footnotes
[702:1] Bonn's Classical Library.
[702:2] See Edwards, page [21].
[702:3] Equivalent to our sayings, "Charity begins at home;" "Take care of Number One."
[702:4] See Wotton, page [174].
If it were now to die,
'T were now to be most happy.
Shakespeare: Othello, act ii. sc. 1.
[703:2] Literally, "with a present mind,"—equivalent to Cæsar's præsentia animi (De Bello Gallico, v. 43, 4).
[703:3] According to Lucian, there was a story that Omphale used to beat Hercules with her slipper or sandal.
[703:4] Cicero quotes this passage in De Officiis, i. 30.
[704:1] This was a proverbial expression, signifying a hale and vigorous old age.
[704:2] See Heywood, page [11].
Some ambassadors from the Celtæ, being asked by Alexander what in the world they dreaded most, answered, that they feared lest the sky should fall upon them.—Arrianus: lib. i. 4.
[704:3] Extreme law, extreme injustice, is now become a stale proverb in discourse.—Cicero: De Officiis, i. 33.
Une extrême justice est souvent une injure (Extreme justice is often injustice).—Racine: Frères Ennemies, act iv. sc. 3.
Mais l'extrême justice est une extrême injure.—Voltaire: Œdipus, act iii. sc. 3.
[704:4] Pliny the Younger says (book vi. letter xvi.) that Pliny the Elder said this during the eruption of Vesuvius: "Fortune favours the brave."
[704:5] Cicero: Tusculan Questions, book iii. 30.
[705:1] A proverbial expression, which, according to Suetonius, was frequently in the mouth of Tiberius Cæsar.
[705:2] All things are in common among friends.—Diogenes Laertius: Diogenes, vi.
[705:3] Cicero quotes this passage (Tusculan Questions, book iii.), and the maxim was a favourite one with the Stoic philosophers.
CICERO. 106-43 b. c.
For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight.[705:4]
De Oratore. 78.
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.[705:5]
De Divinatione. i. 118.
He is never less at leisure than when at leisure.[705:6]
De Officiis. iii. 1.
While the sick man has life there is hope.[705:7]
Epistolarum ad Atticum. ix. 10, 4.