[465] Bacon, de la Vie et de la Mort; Sueton., in Tiber., § 66.

[466] Diogen. Laërt., in Pythag.

[467] Hiérocl., Aur. Carm., v. 33.

[468] Bacon assures, following the ancients, that the envious eye is dangerous and that it has been observed that after great triumphs, illustrious personages having been the object of an envious eye have found themselves ill-disposed for some days following (Sylva Sylvarum, § 944).

[469] Aul. Gell., l. iv., c. 11.

[470] Athen., l. vii., c. 16; Jambl., Vitâ Pythag., c. 30.

[471] Jambl., ibid., c. 24.

[472] Diog. Laërt., l. viii., § 9; Clem. Alex., Pæd., l. ii., p. 170.

[473] Jambl., ibid., c. 21; Porphyre, "Vitâ Pythag., p. 37; Athen., l. x., p. 418; Aul. Gell., l. iv., c. 11.

[474] Diog. Laërt., l. viii., § 19.