[Chapter 49.] The Timaeus, pp. 82-6.
The three powers that make up the soul are those mentioned in the Timaeus, 35 sqq., i.e. Same, Other, and Essence.
[Chapter 50.] The Comitial sickness, so called because, if a case of epilepsy occurred during the meeting of the comitia, the assembly was immediately broken up.
[Chapter 51.] The Problems. Aristot. Fr. ed. Rose, p. 181.
Theophrastus, cp. fragm. 175w. Diog. Laert. v. 2. 13.
[Chapter 52.] Thallus contracts his hands, &c. 'Thallus manus contrahit, tu patronos.' The pun is (a) bad and (b) untranslatable into reasonably good English. The literal meaning is 'Thallus contracts his hands, you collect advocates'.
[Chapter 55.] The comrades of Ulysses, &c. Odyss. x. 28-55.
Aesculapius. Cp. [Florida 18].
the mysteries of father Liber. The mysterious object is probably the mystic casket (cista) containing the φάλλος, emblem of fertility.
[Chapter 56.] The followers of Orpheus and Pythagoras abstained from the slaying of animals for the service of man. Cp. Herodotus ii. 81.