[324] Simon Ockley. An English scholar of the seventeenth century whose chief work was a History of the Saracens.
[325] Oxford. One of the two great English universities.
[326] Plutarch. (See note [264].)
[327] Brasidas. This hero, described by Plutarch, was a Spartan general who lived about four hundred years before Christ.
[328] Dion. A Greek philosopher who ruled the city of Syracuse in the fourth century before Christ.
[329] Epaminondas. A Greek general and statesman of the fourth century before Christ.
[330] Scipio. (See note [205].)
[331] Stoicism. The stern and severe philosophy taught by the Greek philosopher Zeno; he taught that men should always seek virtue and be indifferent to pleasure and happiness. This belief, carried to the extreme of severity, exercised a great influence on many noble Greeks and Romans.
[332] Heroism is an obedience, etc. In one of his poems Emerson says:
"So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man,
When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,'
The youth replies, 'I can.'"