[1001]. A quotation:
καί τις φίλον υἱὸν ἀείρας,
σφάξει ἐπευχόμενος μέγα νήπιος.
—A verse of Empedocles, quoted by Plutarch, de Superstitione, c. xii. Spencer. Cf. note in loc. in Benedictine edition.
[1002]. Cf. 1 Cor. ix. 27.
[1003]. Cf. Col. iii. 5.
[1004]. Cf. Rom. viii. 13.
[1005]. καὶ ὡς εὐδοκιμοῦντες γε ὅσον οὐκ ἐγκατελείποντο. The negative particle (οὐκ) is wanting in the editions of Hœschel and Spencer, but is found in the Royal, Basil, and Vatican MSS. Guietus would delete ὅσον (which emendation has been adopted in the translation), while Boherellus would read ὅσοι instead.—Ruæus.
[1006]. γοητείᾳ.
[1007]. τὸν κυνοκέφαλον.