[360] Obermann, by M. Arnold.
[361] i. 935-50.
[362] 'And can discourse much on the combination of things; and enquire moreover, what are their own first elements.'
[363] 'While I seem ever to be plying this task earnestly, to be enquiring into Nature, and explaining my discoveries in writings in my native tongue.' This is one of those passages which seem to indicate an unhealthy overstrain which may have been the precursor of the final disturbance of 'his power to shape.'
[364] Cp. Munro's notes on the passages where these expressions occur.
[365] E.g. ii. 77, etc. Augescunt aliae gentes etc., suggested by a passage in the Laws:—γεννῶντας τε καὶ ἐκτρέφοντας παῖδας, καθάπερ λάμπαδα τὸν βίον παραδίδοντας ἄλλοισ ἐξ ἄλλων—and the lines which recur several times, etc. 'Nam veluti pueri trepidant,' which Mr. Munro aptly compares with the words in the Phaedo (77), ἴσως ἔνι τις καὶ ἐν ἡμῖν παῖς, ὅστις τὰ τοιαῦτα φοβεῖται.
[366] v. 8.
[367] Cf.
'His ibi me rebus quaedam divina voluptas
Percipit adque horror.'