[267] See the remarks on this passage in the next section.
[268] De Cosmopœa.
[269] Opera, tom. v., p. 594; ed. Basil.
[270] Καλὸν καὶ αγαθὸν. See the Annotations on Mitchell’s Aristophanes as to the import of this expression. I quote from memory.
[271] I quote here from memory, not having leisure to search the passages in Galen’s works where this saying occurs. It is a maxim, however, which he frequently repeats.
[272] One word (ἰχθύη) which occurs in this work is in the Glossaries of Galen and Erotian. This is likely to be an interpolation.
[273] Tuscul. Disputat., v., 35.
[274] In vita Platonis.
[275] I have always looked upon the “Epistolæ Græcanicæ” as being a species of literary composition allied to the Declamationes of the Romans, that is to say, that they were mere exercises in composition. On the latter, see Quintilian, Instit. Orator., iv., 2. We possess a volume of these Declamations under the name of Quintilian, but they are not generally admitted to be genuine. They are exercises on themes prescribed in the schools of rhetoric. The subjects were sometimes historical events, connected with the lives of distinguished personages. The poet Juvenal alludes to Declamations in several places, as in Satir. i., 16; x., 167; vi., 169; vii., 161. The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter opens with a powerful invective against the declaimers of the day, whom the author holds to have been the corrupters of all true eloquence.
[276] Scaliger, Menage, Gruner, and Littré, although they regard the Epistles as spurious, admit that they are “very ancient.”