[71]. Cp. Pindar’s:
All vocal to the hearing of the wise,
All voiceless to the herd.—Ol. 2, 152-3.
[72]. From Simonides, a favourite phrase with Plutarch.
[73]. Fr. 41.
[74]. Fr. 25.
[75]. See on this remarkable passage E. Norden, Agnostos Theos, p. 231 f., and the view of H. Diels, communicated to him. I have followed Norden in reading εἶ, ἤ (he suggests with hesitation προσεπιθειάζειν) (and so Paton and Diels). Diels thinks that οἱ παλαιοί may cover later philosophers such as Xenophanes.
[76]. Il. 4, 141.
[77]. Il. 15, 362.
[78]. Pindar (probably from a Threnos).