[249]. Reading ἅτε δή with C. F. Hermann.
[250]. Cp. Aristot. Hist. Anim. 2, 14, 505 b 13, and 10, 37, 621 a 6.
[251]. Where it is ascribed to Themistius. It was reclaimed for Plutarch by Wyttenbach in the Preface to his edition of the De Sera Numinum Vindicta—Leiden 1772.
[252]. In the Dialogue (Ne suaviter quidem, c. 26) in which the Epicureans are attacked, the ‘hope of eternal existence’ or ‘desire to be’, is spoken of as the ‘oldest and greatest of loves’.
[253]. θάνατος—ἀναθεῖν εἰς θεόν.
[254]. γένεσις—γῆ, νεῦσις. Cp. p. 210, l. 6.
[255]. γενέθλιον—γένεσις ἄθλων.
[256]. Reading ἂν δὲ ἔρῃ, καὶ σώματος for ἂν δὲ ἔρημαι σώματος. See the Lex.-Plat. s.v. ἔρομαι.
[257]. e.g. Od. 1, 423.
[258]. τελευτᾶν—τελεῖσθαι.