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Compare Lucretius, i. 10-20.

4

A quotation from Simonides.

5

We are not bound to swallow all the ancients tell us. Credat Judæus Apella!

6

"Iliad," xvii. 134-136.

7

"Iliad," ix. 324. Quoted again in "How one may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," § 8.

8

"Odyssey," xx. 14, 15.

9

A theatre, that is, in which animals and birds and human beings should meet in common.

10

All that is said here about the milk, the menses, and the blood, I have been obliged somewhat to condense and paraphrase. The ancients sometimes speak more plainly than we can. Ever and anon one must pare down a phrase or word in translating an ancient author. It is inevitable. Verbum sat sapienti.

11

Ibid. xi. 269-271.

12

A fragment from Euripides, according to Xylander.

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