[432] Cf. Schmidt, Die Ethik der alten Griechen (1882), Bd. i, S. 165.
[433] Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States (1896), vol. i, p. 74, quoting Charondas, the Sicilian legislator.
[434] Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States (1896), vol. iv, pp. 177 ff.
[435] Hatch, The Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages upon the Christian Church, 2d ed., p. 292.
[436] History of Greece (1900), pp. 320 f.
[437] Thucyd. i. 70.
[438] For an illuminating comparison of the Greek virtues of fortitude and temperance with the corresponding Christian virtues, see T. H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics, 5th ed., pp. 304 ff.
[439] Ethics, iii. 10.
[440] “But let [each man] know,” says Plato, “how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as in him lies, not only in this life but in all that which is to come. For this is the way of happiness” (Republic, tr. Jowett, x. 619).
[441] Socrates, it is true, taught that it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, but he was here far in advance of the common Greek conscience.