[169] Aristot., De Poët., c. 3.
[170] Aristoph, In Pac., v. 740; Schol., ibid.; Epicharm., In Nupt. Heb. apud Athen., l. iii., p. 85.
[171] Plat., In Argum.; Aristoph. p. xi.; Schol., De Comœd.; ibid., p. xii.
[172] Thence arises the epithet of Eumolpique that I give to the verses which form the subject of this work.
[173] The proof that Rome was scarcely known in Greece, at the epoch of Alexander, is that the historian Theopompus, accused by all critics of too much prolixity, has said only a single word concerning this city, to announce that she had been taken by the Gauls (Pliny, l. iii., c. 5). Bayle observes with much sagacity, that however little Rome had been known at that time, she would not have failed to furnish the subject of a long digression for this historian, who would have delighted much in it. (Dict. crit., art. Theopompus, rem. E.)
[174] Diogen. Laërt., l. i., § 116. Pliny, l. v., c. 29. Suidas, In Φερεκύδης.
[175] Degerando, (Hist. des Systêm. de Phil.), t. i., p. 128, à la note.
[176] Dionys. Halic., De Thucid. Judic.
[177] The real founder of the Atomic system such as has been adopted by Lucretius (De Rerum Natura, l. i.), was Moschus, Phœnician philosopher whose works threw light upon those of Leucippus (Posidonius cité par Strabon, l. xvi., Sext. Empiric., Adv. mathem., p. 367). This system well understood, does not differ from that of the monads, of which Leibnitz was the inventor.
[178] Fréret, (Mytholog. ou Religion des Grecs).