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Book V. Xiv. Katorqwseiz (15): Acts Of "Rightness"

BOOK V XIV. katorqwseiz (15): Acts of "rightness"

or "straightness." XXIII. "Roarer" (28): Gr. "tragedian." Ed.

1 has whoremonger,' ed. 2 corrects to "harlot," but omits to alter'

the word at its second occurrence.

XXV. "Thou hast... them" (33): A quotation from

Homer, Odyssey, iv. 690.

XXVII. " One of the poets" (33): Hesiod, Op. et Dies, 197.

XXIX and XXX. (36). The Greek appears to contain quotations

from sources not known, and the translation is a paraphrase.

(One or two alterations are here made on the authority of

the second edition.) BOOK VI XIII. "Affected and qualified"

(i4): exis, the power of cohesion shown in things inanimate;

fusiz, power of growth seen in plants and the like.

XVII. "Wonder at them" (18): i.e. mankind.

XXXVII. "Chrysippus" (42): C. refers to a passage of

Plutarch De Communibus Notitiis (c. xiv.), where Chrysippus

is represented as saying that a coarse phrase may be vile

in itself, yet have due place in a comedy as contributing

to a certain effect.

XL. "Man or men..." There is no hiatus in the Greek, which means:

"Whatever (is beneficial) for a man is so for other men also."

XLII. There is no hiatus in the Greek.