Orpheus to woods, &c., from Vergil, Eclogue vii. 56.
[Chapter 18.] the tragic poet. Unknown.
Plautus. Truculentus, prologue 1-3.
no rose without a thorn. The Latin is ubi uber, ibi tuber. Wherever you get rich soil, there you will find pignuts.
the council of Africa was theoretically an association for the worship of the imperial house. It had some political importance, however, inasmuch as it might criticize the governor and forward its criticisms to the Emperor at Rome.
Protagoras, a famous sophist of Abdera (latter half of fifth century).
dilemma. See [note on Apologia, chap. 9], self-inconsistency. A closely parallel story is told of Corax and Tisias, rhetoricians slightly earlier in date.
Thales of Miletus, the first of the great mathematicians and physical philosophers of Greece: one of the seven sages. He flourished towards the end of the seventh century b.c.
[Chapter 19.] Asclepiades, a famous physician from Bithynia, of the first half of the first century b.c.
[Chapter 20.] The first cup, &c. The wise author of this saying was, according to Diog. Laert, i. 72, Anacharsis.