The same subject continued.
“There could be no great ones if there were no little.”
CHAP. XLIV. [P. 282.]
The same subject.
Familiar Epistles.
By the way, it is an error to call Cicero’s Epistles, Familiar Epistles. Epistolæ ad familiares, has a distinct meaning.
CHAP. XLV. [P. 296.]
A really great man.
With a fair wind how steadily and cheerily the vessel scuds along. It is not easy to estimate the value of the help of Theseus; did he not assist Meleager in the destruction of the Caledonian boar? What, without his aid, could Perithous have done in his battle with the Centaurs, or Hercules in his contest with the Amazons?