[50] "Iliad," ix. 324. Quoted again in "How one may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," § 8.
[51] "Odyssey," xx. 14, 15.
[52] A theatre, that is, in which animals and birds and human beings should meet in common.
[53] All that is said here about the milk, the menses, and the blood, I have been obliged somewhat to condense and paraphrase. The ancients sometimes speak more plainly than we can. Ever and anon one must pare down a phrase or word in translating an ancient author. It is inevitable. Verbum sat sapienti.
[54] Homer, "Iliad," xvii. 446, 447.
[55] Ibid. xi. 269-271.
[56] A fragment from Euripides, according to Xylander.
[57] Evenus of Paros was an Elegiac Poet.
[58] Aristophanes, "Equites," 50, 51.
[59] See Cicero "Tuscul." i. 34.