[48] See The Ethics of Aristotle, by Sir Alexander Grant, Essay II.
[49] Horace’s “Mutatus Polemon” is well known. The details of the story are given in practically the same form by Diogenes Laertius, Valerius Maximus (vi. 6. 15), and by Lucian in his dramatic version in the Bis Accusatus (16, 17). Philostratus—Lives of the Sophists, i. 20—gives an intensely modern account of the conversion of the sophist Isæus. (See also Note on p. 28.)
[50] Plato: Laws, 642 C. (Jowett’s translation.)
[51] Browning’s Asolando, “Development.” (P. 129, first edition.)
[52] For the influence of the Greek Myths in this direction, cf. Propertius, Book iii. 32.
“Ipsa Venus, quamvis corrupta libidine Martis,
Nec minus in cælo semper honesta fuit,
Quamvis Ida palam pastorem dicat amasse
Atque inter pecudes accubuisse deam.
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