Why thus your vows at random fling?
[102] From κρύπτω, to hide, and ἵππος, a horse.
[103] These lines are from the Erestes of Euripides, v. 247.
[104] This is a quotation from Homer, Od. x. 495. Pope’s Version, 586. The Greek here is, οἷος πέπνυται. The line in Homer stands:
οἵῳ πέπνυσθαι,—sc: πόρε περσεφόνεια.
[105] The argument by progression is the sorites. “The arrest” is the method of encountering the sorites, by taking some particular point at which to stop the admissions required by the sorites.
[106] The remainder of the life of Chrysippus is lost.
[107] See Herod. iv. 93.
[108] This resembles the account which Ovid puts into the mouth of Pythagoras, in the last book of his Metamorphoses, where he makes him say:—
Morte carent animæ, semperque priore relicta