[227] Note VIII.
[228] Note IX.
NOTES
ON
TRANSLATIONS FROM PERSIUS.
SATIRE IV.
Note I.
Socrates.—P. [243].
Socrates, whom the oracle of Delphos praised as the wisest man of his age, lived in the time of the Peloponnesian war. He, finding the uncertainty of natural philosophy, applied himself wholly to the moral. He was master to Xenophon and Plato, and to many of the Athenian young noblemen; amongst the rest to Alcibiades, the most lovely youth then living; afterwards a famous captain, whose life is written by Plutarch.
Note II.
Tell me, thou pupil to great Pericles,
Our second hope, my Alcibiades.—P. [243].