300. Phaedrus. See also Republic, II.

301. How to Study Poetry, IV.

302. Cf. Cicero, De nat. deor. i, 15-38 ff., and Hatch, Hibbert Lectures, 1888, Ch. III.

303. A. Schlemm, De fontibus Plutarchi commentationum De aud. poet. (Göttingen, 1893), pp. 32-36.

304. "Iam cum confluxerunt plures continuae tralationes, alia plane fit oratio; itaque genus hoc Graeci appellant ἀλληγορίαν nomine recte genere melius ille qui ista omnia tralationes vocat." Orator, 94. Cf. Ad. Att. ii, 20, 3.

305. Quintilian, VIII, vi, 44. Isidore, Etym. I, xxxvii, 22.

306. De doctrina christiana (397), III, 29, 40.

307. Confessions (Watts's trans.), III. vi., Lionardo Bruni, De studiis et literis (1405), uses the same argument to defend poetry.

308. Terence, Eun. 585-589, shows a young man justifying his vices on this ground.

309. Poetics, IX.