[2.] Long suggests that the words translated “air to air” might be equally well rendered “spirit to spirit” (ὅσον πνευματίου εἰς πνευμάτιον), thus finding a place for the soul in this enumeration of the elements of man. But this metaphysical division of man’s nature into a spiritual part and a material part would have been wholly contrary to Stoic teaching, which admitted no existence that was not material. As a matter of fact, if any of the terms in this enumeration is to be understood as meaning soul or spirit, it will be fire rather than air.
[3.] Gods and Powers.—θεῶν καὶ Δαιμόνων.
Chapter X.
[1.] To strangle lions or embrace statues.—Hercules did the former, and ostentatious philosophers sometimes did the latter in winter-time, by way of showing their power of endurance.
[2.] The stamp of Nero.—I believe there is no other record than this of any rejection of Nero’s coins, and those which have come down to us are of perfectly good quality. He was declared a public enemy by the Senate, and possibly it was decreed at the same time that his coins should be withdrawn from circulation. Dion, quoted by Wise (apud Schweighäuser), reports that this was done in the case of Caligula, after the death of that tyrant.
[3.] Lions at home, but in Ephesus foxes.—“A proverb about the Spartans, who were defeated in Asia,” notes the Scholiast on Aristoph. Pac., 1188-90.
BOOK IV.
Chapter II.
[1.] Nor can I move without thy knowledge.—From Homer, Il. x. 279, 280, Odysseus to Athene.
[2.] The Genius of each man.—τὸν ἐκάστον Δαίμονα.